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TIL that George Lucas gave his blessing to Mel Brooks to create Spaceballs: The Movie, as long as Brooks agreed not to do any sort of merchandizing.

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eJnk TIL the cast of FRIENDS entered collective negotiations with Warner Bros.’ before season 3 and all 6 actors agreed to be given the salary of the LEAST paid cast member. They wanted to be a true ensemble and everyone featured equally. Near the end of the series they were all paid $1 million/episode.
grwny TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".
jVJN TIL that over a million people signed an online petition to have Taco Bell change its name to Shit-My-Self
YpJ9B TIL Sally Tompkins, a nurse, was the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in any form of the United States army. She was commissioned as a captain in 1861. Under her supervision, she had the lowest death rate of any hospital -- Union or Confederate.
xWbk TIL Sand is a non-renewable resource and the world is running out of it. The construction industry alone uses billions of tonnes of it every year