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TIL the cult sci-fi movie Primer was made on a budget of only $7000 and grossed close to half a million dollars giving it a profit of 60,00%

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X0p96 TIL that in 1069 Norman forces perpetrated a genocide in northern England called ‘the Harrying of the North’
Vxw8 TIL the famous scene from the film Heat, where De Niro’s criminal and Pacino’s detective talk face to face over coffee, was based on the true story of a Detective Adamson tracking down a criminal McCauley in the 1960s. The two met for coffee and had a conversation almost word for word as in the film
XELyr TIL the Red Army accepted a Ukrainian woman after she shot two enemy soldiers at range in an audition, she became the most prolific female sniper in history
E1oVw TIL that Westerns were once so popular, that by 1959 there were 30 Western TV shows airing on US television, even though there were only 3 real channels.
Wo0X TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60lbs for The Lovely Bones by drinking melted Haagen Daz ice cream. He was fired for being too fat and replaced by Mark Wahlberg