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TIL Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.

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yVl4a TIL the movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.
nWX8d TIL that when gangster Johnny Torrio left for Europe in 1925 and handed over his criminal empire to Al Capone, it was worth $1,169,184,000 a year in today’s money.
ne0xB TIL about St Dunstan in the East, a London church destroyed in WWII and turned into a beautiful open roof garden
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e0xG6 TIL about Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building his own palace using stones he collected on his daily mail trips. Although he wanted to be buried in it, the French Government refused, and he spent another 8 years building a mausoleum to complement it.