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TIL the reason that Johnny Cash flipped the bird to the camera in the iconic photo was to send a message to the prison warden. The photographer Jim Marshall had asked Johnny to express what he thought of the prison authorities.

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JYAOj TIL in 2015 Forbes named Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America based on a $9 billion valuation of her company. Yet within a year, following revelations of potential fraud about its claims, Forbes revised her net worth to zero dollars.
0wDYL TIL In 2013 Lucasarts games had a game in development following Boba Fett going through the criminal underworld of Coruscant's level 1313. According to interviews the staff was inspired by the GTA series. The Game was cancelled when Lucasarts was acquired by Disney and laid off most of their staff.
MPZK TIL Christopher Nolan planned a Howard Hughes biographical film starring Jim Carrey, but it was tabled when he learned that Martin Scorsese was making The Aviator. The project he worked on the same year instead? Batman Begins!
xVOjw TIL in the 2019 What Car? Reliability Survey six out of the eight cars with a reliability score over 99% were made by either Toyota or Lexus.
d8VB7 TIL that Nicholas cage did shrooms with his cat Lewis. I remember lying in my bed for hours," he went on, "and Lewis was on the desk across from the bed for hours, staring at each other . . . not moving. But he would stare at me," Nicolas concluded sagely, "and I had no doubt that he was my brother.