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TIL France consumes around 16000 tons of snails a year!

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4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture
OG5a TIL that while filming an episode of Hercules, Kevin Sorbo misread a stage direction as a line and dramatically screamed “DISAPPOINTED”. They left it in
5VAJD TIL that Ray Dalio launched Bridgewater Associates in his apartment in 1975, and by 2013, it became the largest hedge fund in the world.
bE70 TIL that wristwatches were almost exclusively worn by women, men used pocket-watches. Wristwatches were first worn by military men towards the end of the 19th century as a way to synchronise maneuvers during war without revealing the plan to the enemy through signaling.
DQ0Vv TIL Mexico didn't recognize millions of descendents of African peoples they enslaved...until 2019. And the UN basically had to shame them into doing it.