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March 19, 2021

Facts, facts, facts. People love facts. You're a person. At least, you pretend you are if you're not. It's good to know facts if, for no other reason, than to fight the never-ending tedium and boredom of daily life. You probably already know a lot of facts from your lifetime of fact-finding. But that's the beautiful thing, really. No matter how many facts you already know, there are still plenty more to discover. It's amazing to know how much you just don't know in life.

Like did you know how often flies have gay sex? Or the obscene amount of money Warner Bros. makes on Friends reruns? Or that Al Pacino was almost fired from his now-iconic role in The Godfather? Oh, you did? Well, that's impressive but we still have 10 more that you probably don't know yet.

Here, have some more facts to stick into your brain until you learn some new ones.

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Watchmen

We almost got a Watchmen movie in the 90s. Terry Gilliam was supposed to direct, and they wanted Schwarzenegger for Doctor Manhattan, while David Bowie wanted to play Rorschach. But it turned out to be too expensive, and anyway, Gilliam later decided Watchmen was too big for one movie. NOW — Source: CBR

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Two movies had a bidding war over Who Let The Dogs Out back when it was released. Nickelodeon wanted to use it for Rugrats in Paris, and Disney wanted it for 101 Dalmatians. Nickelodeon won by paying for the music video and giving the band, The Baha Men, a live — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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The crowd noises for Spartacus were recorded at a college football game- Before a 1959 MSU Vs. Notre Dame game, the Spartacus sound crew showed up and asked the 76,000 fans to scream as loud as they could. They screamed, among others, the legendary line I am Spartacus! NOW YOU — Source: Lansing City Pulse

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Warner Brothers makes $1 billion a year from syndicating Friends. Each of the main cast members gets 2% of that, or $20 million a year. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: USA Today

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John Cleese considers having a lemur named after him a greater honor than being knighted. They named a lemur species Avahi cleesei after him because of his work for lemur conservation, and he says he'd rather have that than a knighthood or peerage (he turned down a knighthood in 1996). — Source: Irish Examiner

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Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler promised to spEND the prize money as irrationally as possible. He's an economist who studies how rational decision-making often takes a backseat to gut feelings, and they gave him the prize for creating a more realistic analysis of how people think and behave when making — Source: The Guardian

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James Earl Jones didn't speak for eight years. After moving across the country as a child, he began stuttering due to the trauma of being separated from his mother (she didn't come along) and of almost being left behind by his family. He stopped speaking, because other kids made fun — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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85% of male insects have accidental gay FOT sex. It's accidental because they don't bother trying to find out their partner's gender -- basically, they just get it on. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: CBS

4

When threatened or anxious, hagfish produce incredibly bizarre slime. They take less than half a second to release about a bucketful of slime that's 10,000 to 100,00 times softer than Jell-O-- it's one of the softest materials science has identified. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: The Atlantic

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A cave in Romania is possibly the most isolated ecosystem on Earth. Movile cave has been isolated from the rest of the world for 5.5 million years, and it contains 33 species found nowhere else. NOW YOU KNOW — Source: BBC

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One man rescues cats in Fukushima's nuclear zone. * XX53 3x Sakae Kato stayed behind when the 2011 Fukushima earthquake happened, and now he saves cats abandoned by their former owners. He's currently looking after 41 cats, and says I want to make sure I am here to take — Source: Reuters

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Al Pacino nearly got fired from The Godfather. In the first couple of weeks, his performance totally baffled the filmmakers (except for Coppola, who supported him) and they wanted to replace him. They only changed their mind once they saw him in the restaurant scene -. if that scene hadn't worked, — Source: ABC

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