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TIL that the child that runs towards Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) at the end of LOTR: the Return of the King is his own daughter irl.

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WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
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KYob6 TIL female elephants stay fertile into their 60s
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