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TIL That Nicolas Cage Was Paid $20 Million For A Never-Made Superman Movie.

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KOnEG TIL every year an estimated 100,000 golf balls are retrieved from the water surrounding the famous 17th "island" hole on the TPC Sawgrass course.
5YwVn TIL of Vin Mariani, a coca (cocaine) wine created in the 1860s; the wine exported to the US had a higher cocaine content than what was sold in Europe to better compete with similar products. Popes Leo XIII and Saint Pius X , US President Grant, and Thomas Edison were all advocates of the wine.
jNZkE TIL that there existed a tree swastika in a German forest that went unnoticed for nearly 60 years.
rGbW TIL Fawlty Towers - considered by many (including the British Film Institute) to be the best British television series of all time - only consists of 12 episodes, and that the last 6 episodes were produced 4 years after the first 6.
QNJRk TIL Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world