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TIL that in Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick asked Matthew Modine (who played Joker) to keep a running photo diary of the filming over two years.

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R7BA7 TIL that Sony recalled camera in 1998 that could see through clothes
9w47X TIL that during the production of the film “Roadhouse” (1989), all the actors did their own stunts. Actor Sam Elliott recalled: "All the actors, as far as I know, did their own fighting. I fucking got the shit kicked out of me for the entire film."
R5b81 TIL that the song “Muskrat Love” was not originally by The Captain and Tennille. It was originally recorded by the band America, who are best known for the song A Horse With No Name.
OoGR1 TIL that in Lagos, Nigeria people paint "This house is not for sale" outside their homes to prevent fake estate agents selling their house to someone using fake documents. In many cases the scammed buyer then has the true owner evicted from their own home.
YZVZ TIL: The rarest thing in the universe is the element Astatine, number 85 on the periodic table. What makes it so rare is that over time it turns into something else, in the matter of hours.