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TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 6:59 pm

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Corn. Something *I* wrote. feel free to use

by CopyPastaArchive September 4, 2022, 1:59 pm

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TIL Musician Nick Cave wrote a sequel to the film Gladiator titled “Gladiator 2: Christ Killer” wherein Maximus is brought back to life by the Roman gods to travel from purgatory back to Earth to kill Jesus Christ.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 3:36 pm

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TIL the oldest verified Austrian man so far is the accomplished mathematician Leopold Vietoris (1981-2002), who finished his thesis as a WWI’s POW, fought in WWII at the age of 50, and wrote his last research paper at the age of 103

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 9:48 am

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TIL Edith Wharton wrote an incestuous erotica. She particularly annotated the father-daughter incest scene as “unpublishable.” This draft was posthumously discovered by her biographer

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 5:20 am

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TIL that children’s author Shel Silverstein, known for The Giving Tree, was also a songwriter who wrote the 1969 Johnny Cash track “A Boy Named Sue”. Several of Silverstein’s songs have been nominated for Grammys, Oscars, and Golden Globes.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 7:07 pm

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Some girl in our group chat said “coo” and my friend wrote this entire response by hand

by CopyPastaArchive August 24, 2022, 4:43 pm

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TIL a high school student, Johanna Mankiewicz, wrote Albert Einstein for his help on a geometry problem. In order not to divulge the entire solution, Einstein’s response only added to her confusion, resulting in a newspaper headline, “Einstein flunks out as geometry teacher.”

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 3:32 pm

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TIL Marquis de Sade wrote, 120 Days of Sodom, imprisoned in the Bastille but he was transferred to an asylum in 1785, couldn’t retrieve his manuscript, and assumed it was lost in the revolution. The manuscript was actually found two days before the attack and kept private to be published in 1904.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 11:07 am

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a very very very horny madghostsor once wrote

by CopyPastaArchive August 14, 2022, 2:09 pm

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TIL that Jimmy Carter was not a fan of Salman Rushdie’s work and wrote a 1989 op-ed calling his book an insult

by whatilearned August 12, 2022, 9:22 pm

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TIL Shel Silverstein wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue.” Johnny Cash’s version is a cover.

by whatilearned August 6, 2022, 2:12 am

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