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TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.

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O1YL TIL once the last flight before winter has left the South Pole research base, leaving the ~50 crew that will stay all through the ever-dark polar winter, the remaining crew have a tradition where they watch The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) back to back.
DQaJe TIL in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, Finnish cross-country skier Kalle Jalkanen spat out his dentures during the last leg of 4x10 km relay, returned to pick them up and went on to finish the race in first place
xVdx0 TIL - Ketchup originally was made with mushrooms, with the mushroom version being popular around 1750. The tomato version only appeared about 100 years later.
8OJZ TIL that Chris McCandless of Into the Wild fame, died from eating wild potato seeds.
NVJe TIL The writers of Parks & Rec wrote in Ron Swanson’s alter-ego as Duke Silver before they even knew Nick Offerman was an accomplished saxophonist.