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TIL there is a word for the blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush, and that word is nurdle.

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XEQgX TIL there is an acronym for "Nude in Front of Computer", one for "Get Your Pants Off"
oB4jR TIL In Back to the Future, the original idea was for the time machine to be a refrigerator, but because Robert Zemeckis was afraid that kids would imitate the film and get trapped in fridges, they changed it to a DeLorean car.
OLkX TIL Jim Downey, who played the high school principal in Billy Madison, was a longtime writer on SNL. His famous “May God have mercy on your soul” speech at the end of the film was based on a speech Downey used to give to Chris Farley when Farley presented terrible ideas in the SNL writers’ room.
KO5eG TIL GoldeneEye 007’s multiplayer mode was so last-minute that neither Rare nor Nintendo management knew about it. The first time executives saw anything was when programmers were playing it.
BrkbL TIL The band KISS had to change their logo in Germany because the letters SS too closely resembled the "s-bolts" logo of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel forces. It is illegal to domestically distribute or publicly use symbols from the Nazi party in Germany.