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TIL McDonald's Filet-o-Fish was created in Cincinatti to compensate low sales during Lent

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e0BjE TIL J.P. Morgan died with an estimated fortune of “only” $80 million (approx. $1.5 billion in 2015 dollars), upon hearing this John D. Rockefeller remarked “and to think, he wasn’t even a rich man”.
D1eaj TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
WkVjX TIL that elephants are very good swimmers: once an elephant was rescued from the ocean 10 miles off Sri Lanka coast: it got caught in a current off the coast near Kokkilai but it was still swimming
lvNN TIL the film Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in just twenty days, the first nineteen of which were when the film was in limited release.
p8ABe TIL Popcorn was not allowed in movie theaters before 1927. With ornate architectural designs and costly seats, theater owners believed that popcorn was messy and would ruin the first-rate atmosphere they strived to create. When movies added sound, owners discovered the profitability of popcorn.