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BoxOfSnoo t1_iuhxuz3 wrote

Reply to comment by zoinkability in TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti by kamyizme

What's that watermelon doing there?

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Lelabear t1_iujec97 wrote

Really want to know? I happened to be on the set of Robocop quite a bit and hassled Peter about it until he confessed that it was a set up for the next movie (which was never filmed). Supposedly the plot revolved around how watermelons solve the problem of world hunger.

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BoxOfSnoo t1_iujfnld wrote

Both knowing and not knowing are both rewarding, IMO.

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