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GA9j5 TIL for the 2002 DVD release of “E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial,” some changes were done to the original film. Director Steven Spielberg replaced the agents’ weapons with walkie-talkies, and the word “terr0rist” was replaced with “hippie”. This led to many saying that Spielberg “sanitized” the film.
gMkd8 TIL that Kailash Temple,the 8th Century Hindu Megalith was hand-chiseled from top to bottom out of a single huge stone of granite while Aurangzeb, the Mughal ruler who sought to destroy it couldn't even accomplish it in 3 years with a 1000 men and he describes the stone as "too hard to be broken".
xXZw TIL Lars von Trier’s creativity is the result of his mother purposely having an affair with her former employer in order to give him “artistic genes”. She told him on her deathbed.
xVVdg TIL Coca-Cola was first marketed as a brain tonic
6EWLm TIL that the oldest living tree, named "Methusela", is almost 5,000 years old and has been around longer than the Egyptian pyramids!