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TIL that During Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift's filming, they couldn't acquire a permit for a scene, yet they proceeded. The studio hired a scapegoat "director" to spend a night in jail, avoiding any repercussions.

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mxxnP TIL that in october Dick Advocaat, coach of Luxemburg, said before their soccer game against Sweden that Sweden won't beat them with 8-0. Exactly that happened, which resulted in Luxemburg and Advocaat's homecountry, the Netherlands, dropping out of World Cup selections.
x7xw TIL the science fiction films ‘Contact’, 'The Fifth Element’, 'Gattaca’, 'Men in Black’, and 'Starship Troopers’, were all released in the same year, 1997
4kB96 TIL in the 1950s and 1960s trucks with fogging machines that sprayed DDT would be driven through American streets to kill mosquitoes and children would run behind the trucks to play in the thick fog that was created. In 1972, DDT was banned in the United States.
4Xk75 TIL that J. Paul Getty, with a net worth of 1.2billion in the 50s, scolded his wife for spending money freely on the treatment of their six-year-old son after he went blind from a brain tumour. When his son died six years later, Getty didn't attend the funeral.
p8NGe TIL of the anthropic principle: the idea that any data we collect about the universe is filtered by the fact that, in order for it to be observable in the first place, it must be compatible with the conscious thinking life that observes it. We see, only because we are in a universe that can be seen.