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TIL The Goonies director Richard Donner was eager to return home to Hawaii after a hectic shoot with a cast of kids. He said "I love ’em to pieces, but I can’t stand it anymore!’ After shooting wrapped Steven Spielberg put the whole cast on a plane to Hawaii to surprise Donner before he got home.

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7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
4row TIL Keanu Reeves was so good at being a hockey goalkeeper he was nicknamed ‘The Wall’. He dreamed of playing hockey for Canada but an injury ended his hopes for a career in the sport.
oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.
e1QD TIL “Impossible” colors exist such as Red-Green (NOT brown) and Yellow-Blue (NOT Green) that humans can not NORMALLY see. By staring at adjacent bits of red and green, or of yellow and blue, your brain will eventually create a color you’ve never seen before!
0dQNM TIL Inhabitants of high-radiation areas in Iran exhibit fewer radiation-induced chromosomal abnormalities than those in normal-radiation areas, suggesting a potential adaptive response to chronic natural radiation exposure, despite receiving significantly higher annual doses