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TIL that One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship in the Goonies was constructed without the kids allowed to see it, hoping to get a real reaction from the cast for the first take. But when they rolled and revealed it, the gang was so shocked and started cursing up a storm. The scene had to be re-shot.

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KYvxw TIL of Loma Prieta, an earthquake that destroyed the Embarcadero freeway in SF. Despite fears that a traffic apocalypse would be nigh were the highway not rebuilt, the congestion never materialized and remains of the freeway were removed.
ORJX TIL When asked about the premise of training drillers to be astronauts instead of vice versa in Armageddon, Michael Bay told Ben Affleck to “Shut the fuck up”
wLaj7 TIL that for the past 15 years, Brazilian football team Corinthians has never lost a match held right before or after a Taylor Swift solo album release, but always lost the match held after the release of a Paul McCartney solo album.
KOe9Q TIL of 'Taxus voor hoop', a Dutch initiative to collect pruning leftovers of Yew trees/bushes from gardens to produce cancer treatment drugs
4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.