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TIL that slugs used to be used as lubricant on wheels

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1654d TIL The scene in Spider-Man (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.
6Ex8Q TIL that YouTube was created because co-creator Jawed Karim couldn’t easily find a place to view a clip of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime breast incident online
E1jdd TIL Britney Spears has an official music video where she is anime character that destroys a cloning laboratory. The song is pretty good too.
bomE TIL that C. S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia series) was an adamant atheist, until attending Oxford, when his closest friend, J. R. R. Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) convinced him to convert to Christianity.
vpVR TIL if you ask a Korean “How old are you?” they’ll count from when they were conceived, not born