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TIL that during the filming of Rushmore, when Wes Anderson had to scrap a shot due to budgetary constraints, Bill Murray handed him a blank check to cover the cost.

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5Gmn TIL: In the 1970’s two factions: hippies and cops played football against one another in a series of games immortalized as “Pigs vs Freaks”.
jNAJj TIL when scientists first studied ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed all the specimens were female and had tiny parasites attached. Then they realized the “parasites” were the male anglerfish.
aya0 TIL there are approximately the same number of calories in a pound of spinach as there are in two Oreos.
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neeBo TIL In a study of nuns (so that living conditions, histories and environmental factors were “controlled” by their life choice), it was found that those who had demonstrated high optimism in early autobiographies lived on average 10 years longer than the more pessimistic ones.