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TIL the Earth is rocketing through space at 1.3 million MPH.

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KYARR TIL Twentieth Century-Fox used its profits from its film Star Wars to buy the Pebble Beach Golf Course in May 1979.
4N1X TIL From 1995-2000 a man stole the pieces to the top winning prizes from McDonald’s Monopoly and gave them to associates which claimed and shared the prizes totaling over $24M. One year he sent the $1M piece to a Children’s Hospital, although against the rules, McDonald’s honored the prize.
R5N11 TIL Flowering plants first appeared 15 million years after the Jurassic period ended
WZpL TIL There’s an old vending machine in Seattle that has been spitting out sodas on the corner of John and Broadway for up to 15 years, but no one seems to know who re-stocks, maintains, or collects money from the thing. Some flavors include Mountain Dew White Out and Black Cherry Frescas.
nPX7 TIL that Jackie chan sang “I’ll make a man out of you” in Chinese in mulans extra footage