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TIL 1 out of every 4 animals is a beetle.
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TIL Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, recorded a $167 million loss on paper because of “Hollywood Accounting”. Warner Brothers effectively made sure that the movie lost money by paying itself a $212 million “distribution fee” off the top.
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TIL Last year banks collected $30 billion in overdraft Fees - Another way of saying that is collecting 30 Billion from people without any money.
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TIL that raw red kidney beans are toxic. Three to four raw red kidney beans are sufficient to cause food poisoning-like symptoms.
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TIL about Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
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TIL there’s a 2015 remake of Purple Rain featuring musicians from the Tuarag people of West Africa, who have no word for purple, so the title translates to “Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It”