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TIL in the movie “Fight Club” Tyler Durden was originally going to recite a workable recipe for home-made explosives as he does in the novel. But in the interest of public safety, the filmmakers decided to substitute fictional recipes for the real ones.

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5YmXk TIL that before becoming a cult leader and murderer, Charles Manson was a song writer who had songs performed by a number of artists, including The Beach Boys.
awQVZ TIL "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang is inspired by the Quran - specifically, the passage where angels were celebrating while God was creating Adam.
dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”
AONw TIL there is a plan in place to build an offshore technology hub near San Francisco but in international waters so that anyone can come and work on projects from around the world without a visa.
PYKBZ TIL that, in Irish parliament, after Paul Gogarty responded to Emmet Stagg with "Fuck you, Deputy Stagg! Fuck you!", the incident was brought to the Dáil committee, where it was discovered that the word "fuck" wasn't actually in the list of unparliamentary language.