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TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $10 billion foreign debt in order to avoid prosecution

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Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.
EgZKW TIL The first Toy Story film (1995) required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. Pixar was able to render less than 30 seconds of the film per day.
N76aM TIL that on the set of The Princess Bride, Billy Crystal's improvisational lines were so funny that Mandy Patinkin bruised a rib trying to hold in laughter and Rob Reiner had to direct his scenes from a video monitor because his laughter was ruining takes.
4DPN TIL the last person executed under Oklahoma’s death penalty law, James French, famously said as his last words before death; “How’s this for your headline? French Fries.”
rRaly TIL ain't was a socially acceptable contraction and was used by the educated and the upper-class throughout the 17th to 19th century.