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TIL that when River Phoenix's agents wouldn't let him see the screenplay for My Own Private Idaho, Keanu Reeves rode his motorcycle from Canada to River's home in Florida to hand deliver it himself.

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NwmQ TIL that when Canadian reporter Mellissa Fung was kidnapped by bandits in Afghanistan, Afghan intelligence identified the kidnapper, kidnapped his family, and then demanded Fung’s release with no ransom paid
p8RPp TIL: Mark Hamill visited a dying fan in the hospital and answered every question as Luke Skywalker because the fan couldn't tell reality from fiction anymore.
R557w TIL almost all bananas we eat today are clones of each other
ALZ7 TIL That the Terminator’s use of a box of roses to conceal a shotgun in the movie ‘Terminator 2’ is a pun on Guns N’ Roses.
WVDN TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90’s would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying “There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice … who takes it for Lou.”