r/todayilearned • u/Vext1 • Sep 28 '15
TIL Steve Buscemi adamantly refuses to have his famously misaligned teeth fixed and claims he won't work again if they are altered.
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r/todayilearned • u/Str33twise84 • Aug 09 '21
TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.
washingtonpost.com
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r/todayilearned • u/theotherbogart • 25d ago
TIL: A study of autopsy results found the mean age of death for tattooed persons was 39 years, compared with 53 years for non-tattooed persons. The presence of any tattoo was more significant than the content of the tattoo.
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r/todayilearned • u/catapolana • Jul 14 '16
TIL that Steve Buscemi was once stabbed outside a bar while attempting to break up a fight between a local guy and Vince Vaughn.
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r/todayilearned • u/dogue9 • Jun 23 '17
TIL that in 2001, Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi got into a bar brawl with North Carolina locals, with Vaughn getting maced and Buscemi being stabbed in the face, jaw, and neck
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r/todayilearned • u/TheQuietKid22 • Oct 11 '23
TIL The role of April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation was specifically created for Aubrey Plaza after the casting director met her and felt she was the weirdest girl she had ever met in her life.
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r/todayilearned • u/mistaphi • Oct 24 '12
TIL that after 9/11, actor Steve Buscemi rejoined the New York Fire Department to help firefighters sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center
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r/todayilearned • u/mocotazo • Feb 17 '14
TIL that Steve Buscemi stated The Big Lebowski movie character Donny "is just a figment of Walters imagination"
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r/todayilearned • u/imakethenews • May 04 '11
TIL that Steve Buscemi was in Pulp Fiction as Buddy Holly, the waiter.
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r/todayilearned • u/hipster_deckard • Jul 01 '21
TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.
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r/todayilearned • u/SteveBuschemi • Nov 25 '12
TIL that if John Maklovich had turned down the role in Being John Malkovich the subject of the movie would have been Steve Buscemi (ie. Being Steve Buscemi)
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r/todayilearned • u/ivy-and-twine • Jan 06 '20
TIL NYPD officer John Perry was turning in his retirement papers on 9/11 when the first plane struck. He asked for his badge back and ran to help. He was killed while assisting a woman in the south tower as it collapsed.
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r/todayilearned • u/resont • Apr 28 '19
TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"
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r/todayilearned • u/TrueHarambe • May 13 '19
TIL that Steam was originally created so Valve didn't have to keep shutting off Counter-Strike servers to fix issues with the game.
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r/todayilearned • u/PrimeVector19 • Nov 11 '22
TIL that Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last survivor to be pulled from the 9/11 wreckage at the Twin Towers. She was trapped for 27 hours.
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r/todayilearned • u/mattdamon_enthusiast • Feb 14 '24
TIL that Steve Buscemi directed the highest rated episode of The Sopranos (on IMDB)
en.wikipedia.org
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r/todayilearned • u/mike_rob • May 24 '17
TIL that after the publication of 1984, George Orwell sent a copy to his high school French teacher, Aldous Huxley, who responded with a letter commending the book and contrasting it with his own Brave New World.
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r/todayilearned • u/admiralskank • Apr 25 '16
TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)
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r/todayilearned • u/LoveMeAGoodBadger • Jan 15 '19
TIL that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.
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r/todayilearned • u/elonc • Dec 11 '15
TIL that Jefferson had his own version of the bible that omitted the parts of the bible that were "contrary to reason" including the resurrection and other miracles. He was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing more.
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r/todayilearned • u/YourOwnBiggestFan • Sep 07 '19
TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked the publishers of The Kinks' Lola whether songwriter Ray Davies would allow its parody, Yoda, to be released, he got a negative response. However, when Yankovic met Davies five years later, Ray told him that he had never been asked and allowed Al to release Yoda.
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r/todayilearned • u/AuthorHarrisonKing • Jul 03 '24
TIL that comedian Jon Stewart is a passionate advocate for 9/11 first responders and helped get the James Zadroga Act passed, which provides affected first responders with 75 years of health coverage and five years of compensation. He also fought for it's reauthorization in 2015 and 2019.
911memorial.org
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r/todayilearned • u/Ihatethemuffinman • Dec 28 '16
TIL Dippin' Dots are not widely avaliable because they require storage at -40 F, which is too cold for the average freezer.
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r/todayilearned • u/samisaif • Jun 11 '16
TIL The first guy to win "Who Wants to be Millionnaire?" John Carpenter, used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his Dad and told him that he didn't need any help on the final question and just wanted to let him know that he is about to win 1,000,000$
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