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TIL Tom Hanks gained 50 pounds at the beginning of the filming of Castaway and lost it during a year break to make it look like he was living on the island for years

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0doZp TIL Sylvestor Stallone, alongside Expendables 1 to 4, had also planned a spin-off with Sigourney Weaver leading highly-trained female mercenaries (including Milla Jovovich, and Cameron Diaz) to topple an evil dictator bent on world domination. It was titled, quite appropriately, 'The Expendabelles'

4Jbw TIL that the average American woman of today weighs the same as the average American man of the 1960s

8Q4P TIL that in a competition to build the world’s tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft

xVE7g TIL In 1889, Mark Twain predicted the nature of trench warfare. He pitted 53 men versus 30,000 knights. Crouching behind minefields and electrified fences, and manning Gatling guns that “vomit death,” the time-traveler and his companions mow down rank upon gleaming rank of their armored assailants.

DQBAP TIL there have been 16,000 books and articles published on Lincoln—125 on the assassination alone—more than any other American.