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TIL 'The Matrix' Wanted Sandra Bullock as 'Neo' before Keanu Reeves took the role. The producers had such a hard time finding the right man for the role that they briefly considered changing Neo into a female character. She was also considered for the part of Trinity and regretted not taking it.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 08:07PM by TurboTaco-with-Poop
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TIL Female Komodo Dragons can impregnate themselves without a male through a process called parthenogenesis. By forcing duplication of sex chromosomes they can give birth to male Komodo Dragons and keep their species alive.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 10:45PM by Jiggs96
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TIL that Winston Groom, the author of "Forrest Gump" the source for the titular movie, was contracted to earn 3% share of the profits. The film made about $678 million on the budget of $55 million, but Paramount did not pay Groom, using Hollywood accounting to posit that the film indeed lost money.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 11:46PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL the band name Smashing Pumpkins doesn't mean breaking a gord; the "Smashing" in it is an adjective not a verb. So smashing as in "fantastic".
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 03:01AM by solojones1138
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TIL On September 11,2001 Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American not on earth that day, he was 250 miles above at the International Space Station and this is the photo he took Of NYC. He said he didn't know what was going on but he knew it was bad because he could see the smoke from space.
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 08:31AM by BirdPlan
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TIL that Bob Graham's (38th Governor of Florida) political campaign included performing a full eight-hour workday of the various jobs that Floridian voters held. Starting in 1974, and totaling 408 workdays, jobs he worked included being a teacher, police officer, busboy, and construction worker.
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 07:55AM by ReadySetDough
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TIL Famous Chess Player Igor Ivanov Defected To Canada In 1980 While Traveling Home To Moscow On A Czechoslovakian Airliner. His Plane Made An Emergency Stop in Newfoundland, Canada. Taking The Chance, He Ran From The Plane While Being Chased By KGB Agents and Was Granted Political Asylum
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 08:38AM by GreedyEngineering5
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TIL: In 2015, researchers testing the efficiency of mosquito repellents used a Victoria’s Secret perfume because they thought the floral fragrance would attract mosquitoes. To their surprise, they found it repels mosquitoes better than a range of mosquito deterrents.
http://bit.ly/2QLmhSd

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 02:05PM by Hafnium67
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TIL that when filming Return of the Jedi in California's redwood forests, Peter Mayhew, when dressed as Chewbacca, had to be escorted by crew members in bright colored vests so local hunters wouldn't think he was bigfoot and shoot him.
http://bit.ly/2crH9LM

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 05:33PM by G_man252
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TIL that James Cameron altered just one scene of the night sky when Rose is on the raft because according to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the star field Rose sees wasn't accurate for the time and place. Cameron asked him for the correct one and changed it for the Titanic re-release in 2012.
http://bit.ly/1MbbvMw

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 04:15PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL There is only 1 reported death from radiation at Fukushima, but over 1600 reported deaths from "evacuation stress" such as suicide and health access.
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 03:28PM by HarboringOnALament
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TIL when actors screwed up on Tarantino's set, they had to say "Hi Sally" to editor Sally Menke as she had to sit for hours and watch the actors' different takes.
http://bit.ly/2IoF55S

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 05:27PM by mujhair
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TIL in 1942 the BBC issued an appeal for postcards and photographs of the coast of Europe from Norway to the Pyrenees. It was actually an intelligence gathering exercise, they were sent to the War Office to help determine a suitable location (Normandy) for the eventual D-Day landings of 1944.
https://bbc.in/2dPsahm

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 02:35PM by jonitfcfan
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TIL that the normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles).
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 06:52PM by HogNutsJohnson
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TIL that the first synthetic plastic was invented as a submission in a $10,000 award contest to find a replacement for ivory in the manufacture of billiard balls.
http://bit.ly/31avVCQ

Submitted June 05, 2019 at 08:55PM by ChunkofWhat
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TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's scarce freshwater resources
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Submitted June 05, 2019 at 10:50PM by dysgraphical
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