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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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XNJX TIL that women who went to Harvard and graduated from there before 1999, weren’t allowed to receive a Harvard degree. They received a “Radcliffe University” degree instead.
4j7X TIL One company produces up to 80% of the communion wafers used in U.S. Catholic churches​. The company is a secular industrial bakery that churns out more than 25 million wafers every week.
VdwD TIL that actor Paul Newman founded the food company Newman’s Own, which donated 100% of its after-tax profits to charity.
wQ7J TIL Alaska was never meant to be separated from the rest of the United States, but would be linked when British Columbia also joined. Instead, the Alaska Purchase compelled British Columbia to join the Canadian Confederation 3 months later.
8anG4 According to a report released by Hong Kong-based marine conservation group OceansAsia, approximately 1.56 billion face masks entered oceans in 2020.