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TIL In 2009 while filming BTS footage for Parks and Rec, Chris Pratt made an improvised joke about receiving a text Steven Spielberg and getting back to him about "Jurassic Park 4". 4 Years later he got the starring role.

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LQRyV TIL of French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke at 43 and became paralyzed. He suffered from locked-in syndrome, where his mind was intact but he could only move one eyelid. Bauby blinked out a 130-page novel that was a bestseller, passing away two days after it was published
oB08o TIL: The Statue That Offended New York was a nickname for a realistic nude sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that circa 1900 stood on the city's highest point. A critic said the nearby park's character changed: kids displaced by "club men...with field glasses.” (The art was later sent to a museum.)
4X5WX TIL That during the Vietnam War, the American navy laid thousands of sea mines in the waters off North Vietnam. In August of 1972 a solar storm caused 4,000 of them to spontaneously explode in just a few weeks.
9dMD TIL Penelope Spheeris, the director of The Decline of Western Civilization and Wayne’s World, was given the opportunity to direct This is Spinal Tap, but turned it down, thinking it wasn’t possible to make fun of heavy metal.
d86e8 TIL that although our Moon is the largest in comparison to its planet, it's only the 5th-largest moon in the Solar System. Both Jupiter and Saturn have moons (Ganymede and Titan) that are larger than the planet Mercury.