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TIL when Rupert Murdoch (then-owner of 20th Century Fox) was shown a rough cut of "Titanic" to appease him over how much money James Cameron was spending on the film, Murdoch said "I can see why you like the movie, but it's no Air Force One."

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VMynB TIL that Battlefield Earth, a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has been praised by numerous fantasy and science fiction authors, among them Neil Gaiman, Frederik Pohl, and Kevin J. Anderson
8aM0L TIL that 10 minutes before the Titanic hit an iceberg, the nearby SS Californian's sole radio operator shut his set down for the night and went to bed. They were only 10-12 miles away, while the RMS Carpathia, which was 58 miles away, arrived 1.5 hours after the Titanic Sank.
krKg TIL An 18-year-old man tried to eat his underwear in the hope that the cotton fabric would absorb alcohol before he took a breathalyzer test.
R7ya6 TIL The Fast and the Furious (2001) is not the first film about criminals and racing with the name "The Fast and the Furious".
6BrJ TIL that in 2012 a wearable computing pioneer was attacked by McDonalds employees for refusing to remove his (permanently attached) digital eyeglasses