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

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KYLVQ TIL in 1985, a black bear in the mountains of Georgia became infamous for consuming a huge quantity of cocaine. A drug smuggler dropped 88lb out of a plane ($15 million worth). Later, the bear was discovered dead near the duffel bag after an overdose and is now taxidermed and on display in Kentucky
0wNwA TIL that the Nintendo's classic arcade game "Donkey Kong" (1981) is so hard that in 2007, only 2 people were known to have completed it. Today, that number is still under 100.
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GYbyG TIL that Indian Special Forces helped capture and return UAE's Princess Latifa after she escaped from the UAE and was seeking political asylum