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TIL that despite making $475 million at the box office, against a $32.5 million budget, Return of the Jedi is still shown as not making any profit, on paper, thus denying the actor who played Darth Vader any residuals.

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awPeL TIL that when filming Zulu (1964) in South Africa, when the authorities warned the British crew that interracial sex was punishable by whipping, the producer responded by asking "if he could have the lashes while doing it".
jNNQR TIL that New York City has 520 miles of coastline - more than the coastline of Miami, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles combined
aw5rJ TIL about the 'Days of Shame', when in 1934, 75 Montreal physicians went on strike to protest a Jewish doctor that was hired at a Catholic hospital. After 4 days, the Jewish doctor finally resigned because patients weren't getting care.
QJaO6 TIL that most time and clock systems on computers will stop working at exactly 03:14:07 UTC on January 19 2038 because their time is stored as a 32-digit binary number which will become more than 32 digits when it reaches 3:14:07.
gMBN8 TIL that in 1916 soldiers with a femur fracture had an 80% chance of dying. The introduction of the Thomas Splint reversed this statistic, giving soldiers with the same injury an 80% survival rate by 1917.