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TIL Christian Slater made the lowest grossing movie of 2012: $264 from 33 tickets sold

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Oxr1 TIL that all the bridges depicted on Euro banknotes are fictional so as not to show favouritism to member states - but then a guy in Holland decided to build them all.
Prmg TIL that Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Pakistani man, rescued over 20,000 abandoned infants, rehabilitated over 50,000 orphans, has trained over 40,000 nurses and runs the largest ambulance network in the world. He also donated all his body parts before passing away.
vxpB TIL of Richard Jewell, a security guard who was a national hero, when he saved hundreds of people by spotting a bomb at the 1996 Olympics. He was later wrongly accused of the crime, enduring a trial by media - which took a toll on him personally and professionally.
DDae TIL Northen Ireland segregates Irish nationalist and unionist neighbourhoods through so-called “peace walls”, some of which can go on for miles.
wOeW TIL there is a movement in France which rejects the Revolution and maintains that the Duke of Anjou, Louis Alphonse, is King Louis XX