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TIL Paranormal Activity is the most profitable film ever made, as it only had a budget of $15,000 and still made over $190 million in the box office

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EwEp TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food
1aj9O TIL the Kamasutra affirms and recognizes same-sex relations, and there are several Hindu temples that have carvings that depict both men and women engaging in homosexual acts. There are also several Hindu temples which have carvings that depict both men and women engaging in homosexual acts.
W76W4 TIL Peter Billingsley who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” also played the head elf in “Elf”.
Y7e1A TIL: PBS covered a 2018 doctoral thesis which found that people who ate ice cream more than twice a week were 12% less likely to develop cardiovascular disease. However, an Italian study showed that eating ice cream does increase the chance of type 2 diabetes
WkM6B TIL of Dr. Donald Hopkins. He helped eradicate Smallpox, and is on the verge of killing another disease. He's taken Guinea Worm Disease down from 3.5 million cases a year to just 28 cases last year.