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TIL the first sales pitch for the Nerf ball was “Nerf: You can’t hurt babies or old people!“

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a8nL9 TIL John Carpenter’s “The Thing”(1982) Was Such a Commercial Failure Upon Release That it Was Called the “Most-Hated Film of All Time” by Horror Magazine Cinefantastique and Universal Pictures Even Dropped its Director John Carpenter From a Multi-Picture Deal
v1M94 TIL that two giant birds attacked and tried to pick up a child in Lawndale, Illinois in 1977. The birds were never identified.
4XWkg TIL there exists a film of Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man. It was sold at auction for $1.5M to a NY businessman who has kept it private.
R0PQ TIL the guy who called fast food restaurants causing managers to strip search young female employees for 10 years was acquitted at trial
wpyE TIL Mark Twain despised Jane Austen and was quoted as saying: “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”