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TIL one of the oldest cinematic universes is the Universal Monsters series, which featured Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Wolf Man, and a recurring cast of characters from 1931 to 1951

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816L TIL that there’s a town in Pennsylvania which has a coal mine burning underneath it for the last 50 years. Everybody moved out except 9 people, and the fire is expected to go on another 250 years.
px5p TIL Quentin Tarantino’s father abandoned him at the age of two. But after his son’s success as a director, he started doing direct-to-DVD movies with the father of Al Pacino so the movie boxes could say “Pacino and Tarantino in…..”
b9wmE TIL that the Wall Street "Charging Bull" sculpture was for sale from 1993 to at least 2008. The artist was trying to recover the $360,000 it cost him to cast the piece. He only received one major offer: a Las Vegas hotel bid $300k but he declined and insisted that it remain in its current location.
wGl6 TIL the first stage of Saturn V was fueled by kerosene, produced 215 million horsepower, and got 5 inches to the gallon
VMybZ TIL about the U.S. Air Force's doomsday weapon, SLAM. The rocket was designed to fly fast and low over the Soviet Union, dropping hydrogen bombs over predetermined targets while its unshielded nuclear reactor contaminated everything in it's path.