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TIL There is 97% overlap between swimmers and great white sharks in So. California beaches

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AN8oB TIL The 1988 martial arts film Bloodsport is one of the only movies to be filmed inside Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City before it's demolition in 1993.
yQQ4M If you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you’d need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip.
4kPXR TIL TV shows love hiring twins for newborn roles. Twins double the filming time (they swap them out) and, since they’re often born premature and smaller, they look more like fresh newborns on screen, even if they’re actually a few weeks old.
ROJ9 TIL that in the 1950’s General Motors was the biggest employer in the United States and paid their employees an average of $50 per hour. Today Walmart is the biggest employer in the U.S. and pay an average of just over $8 per hour.
e0Vdg TIL that Schlitz was the number one beer in America in the early 1950s and then they started changing ingredients to cut costs. By 1975, consumers complained that the beer was forming "snot" in the can, and by 1981 the company folded.