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TIL The movie Titanic cost more to produce than the ship itself.

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4XXGN A deadly outbreak of cholera followed the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti three years ago this week. Jonathan Katz, the only American fulltime staff reporter stationed in Haiti at the time, explains what caused the outbreak--and why it was anything but inevitable.
xKJD TIL Today (Easter Monday) is a national holiday in Czech Republic that is celebrated by men spanking women with a homemade whip.
0deVv TIL The MS Stockholm, famous for crashing into the SS Andrea Doria and losing her bow, still sails today. The ship has since been transformed into a cruise ship and sails under the name MV Astoria.
xK9B TIL That in the mid 80’s the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus surgically attached horns to goats skulls and billed them as “living unicorns”. When they came under fire from animal rights activist, their argument was “They magically appeared.”
yQJWJ TIL the original comic book Superman couldn't fly but only leap tall buildings. It wasn't until the 1940s, when animators for a new animated series decided it would be too difficult to routinely draw him bending his knees, that it was decided that Superman could take off into the air.