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TIL that the 1994 movie Baby's Day Out was reviewed very negatively by critics in the west, named the worst movie of the year by The Buffalo News and grossed only $16 million dollars in the US and Canada. However, in India, it was considered more popular than Star Wars and was remade 3 times.

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gr7o7 Today I learned half of Canton, MA got bleach balooned
dXwd TIL Garry Kasparov played the world at a game of chess online, where over 50,000 different people from over 75 countries voted on the best move. Kasparov won.
l7BMG TIL that Mahatma Ghandi sought the counsel of Leo Tolstoy in 1910, as both were staunch vegetarians, and Ghandi opened "Tolstoy Farm" in South Africa to promote peace, love and balance
Wgbd TIL that Orson Welles, influential actor and director of the classic film “Citizen Kane,” ended his prolific career by playing Unicron, a planet-eating robot in “Transformers: The Movie”.
j6wja TIL despite the PS3 being out for four months by then, God of War 2 (2007) was released only for the PS2. Studio Santa Monica's justification to the Sony heads for doing this were that they wouldn't have to play catch-up to be PS3 compatible, and a PS2 release was accessible to far more people.