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TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have 8 consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, followed by Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks with 7 each.

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xV1JD TIL a lawyer was hired for a traffic case. Instead of sitting his client at the witness table, he dressed another lawyer to look like the client. When the only witness (a policeman) was asked to point to the defendant in the room he pointed to the fake client. The real defendant was found not guilty
BgJbx TIL Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone class destroyer in the the United States Navy. She was the first ship to have a wartime mixed-sex crew and was nicknamed "The Love Boat" in the Persian Gulf War after 10% of its crew became pregnant during deployment.
Y768r TIL research scientists created a system to allow goldfish to drive a fish tank using cameras to track the fish bumping into walls to navigate towards a colored target for a reward. They changed starting positions and added decoys to prove the fish were navigating the environment not just memorizing
4XK9J TIL in 2008 the council of the British city of Birmingham printed 360,000 leaflets that featured an image of the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. The council then said that it was meant to be a "generic skyline picture".
Z8gmY TIL The climate anomaly between 535–536 caused a global drop in temperature, resulting in a long and devastating winter in Scandinavia. Some scientists believe that this winter became the influence to the "Fimbulwinter" that's the prelude the end of the world in Ragnarök.