TIL Bruce Willis was offered $3 million (for four days of work) to return in The Expendables 3 (2014), but turned it down because he wanted $4 million instead. Sylvester Stallone and "everybody else involved" rejected Willis' demand and moved on by replacing him with Harrison Ford within 72 hours.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 06:06PM by tyrion2024
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The Hollywood Reporter
Source: Bruce Willis Left ‘Expendables 3’ Over $1 Million-a-Day Fee Demand
A source says the actor was offered $3 million for four days of work shooting in Bulgaria but said he would drop out if he didn't get $4 million.
TIL Phossy jaw was an occupational disease affecting those who worked with white phosphorus (also known as yellow phosphorus) without proper safeguards.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 05:51PM by VelvetDreamers
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TIL the Six Flags theme park gets its name from the six nations that have governed Texas -- Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, United States of America, and Confederate States of America
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:06PM by woeful_haichi
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TIL that in Canada before 1947, women lost their citizenship if they married foreign (non-British) men
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:37PM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL acetaminophen is a regional name used in America, Canada and Japan. Other countries call headache medicine Paracetamol. Instead of Tylenol, they have Panadol.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 06:48PM by Mommyof2Muggles
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Drugs.com
What is paracetamol / Panadol called in the US?
Official answer: Is Paracetamol the same as Tylenol? Paracetamol is known as acetaminophen in the USA. Acetaminophen relieves...
TIL When Alexander the Great conquered Jerusalem he made a generous deal with the local Jewish population to give them autonomy. Out of gratitude to Alexander, the Jews agreed to name every child born the next year “Alexander.”. It was eventually adapted to “Sender” and became a common Jewish name.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:37PM by UndyingCorn
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Jewish History
Alexander the Great
The story of Alexander the Great and the Jews is intimately intertwined. However, its after-effects shook the Jewish world to
TIL of the Ig Nobel prize, a parody of the Nobel prize dedicated to ten achievements that “first make you laugh, then make you think”, such as the 1993 award for mathematics awarded to a man who calculated the exact odds of Mikhail Gorbachev being the Antichrist (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1)
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 07:57PM by badastronaut7
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TIL Bill Wilson of AA fame asked for whiskey several times on his deathbed, but was refused.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 09:58PM by One-Incident3208
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Snopes
AA Co-Founder Bill Wilson Denied Whiskey Shots on His Deathbed?
The story of Wilson's whiskey deathbed request has been discussed within the recovery community.
TIL One of the first recorded juveniles to be executed in France was Claudine de Culan, 16, who was executed in 1601 for beastiality with a dog, almost getting the charges dropped until the dog jumped on her during an examination by midwifes, her and the dog were burnt alive 13 days later
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 10:11PM by BlackberryActual6378
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TIL kitchen sponges are "microbial incubators" and cannot be effectively sterilized outside of laboratory conditions
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 12:08AM by heronmarkedslingshot
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Nature
Microbiome analysis and confocal microscopy of used kitchen sponges reveal massive colonization by Acinetobacter, Moraxella and…
Scientific Reports - Microbiome analysis and confocal microscopy of used kitchen sponges reveal massive colonization by Acinetobacter, Moraxella and Chryseobacterium species
TIL James Wilson—a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and one of the six original members of the U.S. Supreme Court—was the first and only Supreme Court justice to be jailed while on the Court.
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Submitted October 25, 2025 at 11:11PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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SCOTUSblog
Forgotten Founder: William Ewald on Justice James Wilson, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Corrected)
Despite signing both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and being one of six original justices appointed to the Supreme Court, James Wilson is not often thought of as […]
TIL George Washington borrowed "The Law of Nations" from the New York Society Library & never returned it. In 2010, the head librarian joked that, though they weren't "pursuing the overdue fines," they'd appreciate having it back. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate returned it, 221 years overdue
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:32AM by tyrion2024
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TIL the US worked to develop "Bat Bomb" - bombs that were loaded with 1k chilled bats with time-release Napalm glued to their bodies. The project was canceled because the Atomic Bomb was finished first.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:00AM by TheUncleBob
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TIL the video game, Cyberpunk 2077, has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures after its catastrophic, bug-filled, launch
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:03AM by WarEagleGo
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GAMINGbible
Cyberpunk 2077 ends up in New York's Museum Of Failure
Two years after release, Cyberpunk 2077 has been admitted into the New York Museum of Failures, a harsh sentence, but not undeserved.
TIL On a high-fiber diet, people absorb fewer calories overall
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 12:23AM by firedog7881
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Arizona State University
Is your gut microbiome a calorie 'super harvester'?
In the jungle of microbes living in your gut, there’s one oddball that makes methane.
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TIL Two versions of Chinese Actress Ruan Lingyu's suicide note were released after her death. The first version appears to be a forgery by Tang Jishan, Ruan's partner at the time of her death. The second and less well-known version is believed to be Ruan's actual suicide note.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 05:59AM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL in 1962, mountaineers warned that unstable rock and ice on the Huascáran mountain could pose a danger to nearby villages. This was ignored by the Peru government, who threatened them with arrest. In 1970, an earthquake caused rocks and ice to come loose, killing 30,000 people.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 08:08AM by Sebastianlim
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TIL in 1939, a major international chess tournament in Buenos Aires coincided with the start of World War II. Afterwards, many top European players chose to stay in Argentina rather than return to Europe.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 10:47AM by Jopalopa
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TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as a homicide, but it was later revealed that he had done it, while lost in the underwater cave, to avoid the pain of drowning.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 02:55PM by tyrion2024
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TIL about James Price, an English alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to do it in front of credible witnesses, he agreed, only to instead commit suicide by drinking prussic acid in front of the witnesses.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 03:21PM by JackThaBongRipper
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TIL the Air Force tasked 4 pilots to fly into the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first H-bomb. One of them, Jimmy Robinson, never made it home.
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Submitted October 26, 2025 at 04:26PM by BigZaddy64
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Chemistry World
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements - one of them didn't make it home
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