Today

NXmkJ TIL James Cameron has directed "the most expensive movie ever made" five separate times
rNp0o TIL that the kid who voiced Arthur in Disney’s 1963 film “The Sword in the Stone” went through puberty in the middle of production. The director then used his two sons to finish recording Arthur’s lines. In some scenes, vocal clips from all three actors are interspersed.
BgmOk TIL that in AD 70, Roman emperor Vespasian levied a tax on urine and sent agents to public urinals to collect it. When his son (who opposed the tax), asked him whether the coins he collected this way smelled bad, he famously replied "money does not stink".
Y7W9A TIL that Measles infection causes "immune amnesia" which causes your immune system to forget how to fight pathogens that you had previously obtained immunity to.
Egmew TIL about Alvin Straight, an American man who travelled 240 miles on a riding lawn mower from Laurens, Iowa to Blue River, Wisconsin to visit his ailing brother in 1994.
kJZ7m TIL that Michael Böllner the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, became a tax accountant and had no idea how popular the movie was in America until he was invited to a fan convention decades later.
78my7 TIL that Dandelions are edible. I actually ate one today and it tasted like sugar. Can't believe I never knew this.
ZpRWB TIL that James Dean was most likely bisexual and had relations with several men and women throughout his career. When questioned on his orientation, he said "No, I am not a homosexual. But I'm also not going to go through life with one hand tied behind my back."
a8PeZ TIL, Bobby Brown’s Don't Be Cruel was the best-selling album of 1989 in the United States, and finished number one on the Billboard Year-End album chart. Eventually the album sold 12 million copies worldwide in less than a decade.
KYmj6 TIL the town of Coachella was originally going to be called Conchilla, meaning "little shells" in Spanish due to all the seashells found in the area. During the process the printers misread the documents and they were filed with Conchilla spelled 'Coachella' and they just decided to accept it.
dDNj8 TIL that Roald Dahl (the author) also contributed to medical science by helping develop the Wade-Dahl-Till valve, a cerebral shunt used to treat hydrocephalus after his son was in an accident
oRo5R TIL a woman secretly kept her lover hidden in her attic for over a decade; he emerged only to kill her husband