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TIL the South Korean movie Snowpiercer is one of the country's most expensive movies ever at $40 million USD

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rgy1 TIL King Cobra is called as “King” becuase it can eat other species of snakes, and their poison doesn’t affect it.
N7EDQ TIL After flying 65 combat missions over North Vietnam (144 total), Guion Bluford became the first African American to qualify as a NASA astronaut in 1979. He also became the first African American in space in 1983, ultimately logging over 688 hours across four Space Shuttle missions.
avlb TIL that during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Samuel Adams brewery sold 108 craft breweries their excess hops, at cost, to help prevent them from going under.
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16A4X TIL that even after 2 atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan in WW2, the movement against surrender was so strong that there was an attempted coup against the Emperor to stop the capitulation.