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TIL The Woman Who Won the Contest to Name Toronto’s Skydome Still Receives 2 Free Tickets to Every Skydome Event 25 Years Later

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BAAr TIL that a 12 year old whisky will always remain a 12 year old whisky as it does not mature in the glass bottle.
9YRwX TIL Christopher Nolan got $160M for Interstellar because WB let him have a salary of $20M+20% of the total gross. This was because WB was not confident of it being a success and didn't think 20% would be much. This lack of faith in it's success was also why they let other studios co-finance the film
A51g TIL Christopher Walken likes to edit the punctuation of every script he gets, so he can say things the way he wants to
G9E5 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt believed that American currency shouldn’t carry the motto “In God We Trust.”
JYAB4 TIL that The Three Stooges were lied to for 23 years by the then-president of Columbia Pictures. They were never told how popular they were during their Columbia run, and never asked for a raise due to always thinking they were on the verge of losing their jobs.