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TIL that due to the threat of a one million dollar budget overage Warner Bros. Studio gave up production of the film 'Home Alone' to 20th Century Fox. The film went on to gross 300 million dollars, shattering box office records of the time.

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Wknoo TIL of Clifford Johnson who survived the Cocoanut Grove fire and became the most severely burned person to survive his injuries at his time while trying to save his date. 21 months later he would marry his nurse that treated him at the hospital and die in fiery car crash 15 years later.
nRMo TIL The TI-84/83 calculators have comparably higher profit margins than apple due to their monopoly on the school system
5VWMD TIL that an Australian man survived a wildfire by scuba diving in his friend’s pool while the fire raged around him
VMB0B TIL Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, was not only responsible for bacon and eggs becoming an American breakfast staple, but was also responsible for women taking up smoking in protest in the 1920's, dubbing them "Torches Of Freedom".
MerBB TIL Rebel Wilson decided to pursue acting because of a malaria-induced hallucination in which she saw herself winning an Oscar. She contracted malaria while working as a Youth Ambassador for Rotary International in South Africa.