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TIL that India is the highest producer of movies in the world followed by Nigeria and US on an annual basis for the last few years.

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awyDJ TIL Leicester physics graduates concluded that Star Trek's tribbles would fill the USS Enterprise in 4.5 days. Using Spock's estimate that each tribble can birth 10 offspring in 12 hrs. amounting to 1,777,561 tribbles in 3 days they added an exponential growth rate of 18.4×109 tribbles.
oRVJo TIL in 1983 Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a ball at a seagull while warming up between innings, killing it. Afterward he was charged with cruelty to animals. Manager Billy Martin, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season."
BrGjK TIL that in classic western movies they used sugar glass (Breakaway glass) to make windows and glass bottles as safe props
e0rOE TIL Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek.
J41m TIL “Hell’s Kitchen” is a neighborhood in Manhattan, NYC most likely named after 2 cops watching an Irish riot. The rookie said “this is hell,” and the veteran said, “It’s hotter. It’s Hell’s Kitchen.”