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TIL that women tend to outlive men by an average of 7 years worldwide.

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kJ6k5 TIL the book on which the movie "The Exorcist" is based was initially a failure. The author lucked out when he was invited as a last-minute guest on late night show, The Dick Cavett Show. Subsequently, the book hit The New York Times best-seller list and was picked up by Warner Bros for the movie.
j4gM TIL Richard Feynman was arrested while working on the Manhattan Project for playing pranks on military guards using a hole in the security fence. And safe-cracking.
l7O75 TIL Cicely Tyson was godmother to the singer Lenny Kravitz, as well as to Denzel Washington's daughter Katia, and Tyler Perry's son Aman.
oRJYK TIL the first Mary Poppins book originally had a chapter where Mary and the children travel around the world and meet racially stereotypical people. This chapter was revised in 1967 to make the characters less offensive, and later revised in 1980 so that they were talking animals instead of humans.
mxORY TIL that, not only the Normandy scene in Saving Private Ryan cost $11m to shoot, but also most of the soldiers seen were actually members of the Irish Defence Forces.