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TIL Dennis Hopper went on T.V. and told a story about how Rip Torn pulled a knife on him. Torn sued for defamation and won. Hopper had to pay compensatory but not punitive. Hopper later appealed the ruling. Appellate not only upheld the decision but also made him pay another $475,000 in punitive.

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pxa4 TIL in ‘91, 8 people were sealed inside a 3 acre dome. The sealed structure housed 7 ecosystems: ocean, desert, savannah, rainforest, marsh, an area of intensive agriculture and a human habitat. The project was designed to see whether humans could survive and adapt.
5Yod8 TIL that the Universe expands by about 68 kilometers per second, or about 150.000 miles per hour.
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a8LA TIL that during the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, the American Humane Association monitored all of the scenes involving Brooks’ crow; during the scene when Brooks fed it a maggot, the AHA objected that it was cruel to use a live maggot and required that they use one that was already dead.