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TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.

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GvmN TIL Sean Connery’s knighthood was likely blocked by the British Labour Party for two years because of his support for an independent Scotland (he finally got it in 2000 and showed up in a kilt)
9wgKB TIL Rockstar originally offered GTA 3 to Xbox as an exclusive release but Xbox executives rejected it because they didnt think Rockstar could effectively transition the game from 2D to 3D. This would lead Sony to sign GTA 3 to a timed exclusivity deal on the PS2. Overall GTA 3 would sell 14.5m units
WNro TIL after Olga of Kiev’s husband got murdered, she went after the culprits and not only obliterated the whole family through ruse and deceit, but also destroyed their city. With pigeons.
DkXe TIL that Nestle earned the nickname “baby killer” in the mid 1970s after a bad marketing ploy killed many children in Africa.
D1bvg TIL in 2016 Scientists observed the first case of a giant spider eating an opossum: Scientists from the University of Michigan were studying predation of small vertebrates by arthropods in the Peruvian Amazon when they came across a giant tarantula devouring an opossum, which was still twitching