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TIL Warner Bros. spent $10 million on a “Mr. Limpet” remake starring Jim Carrey only to abandon the project when the animation tests were deemed “horrifying”

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N1o8 TIL Female koalas indulge in lesbian sex sessions, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time
V5p4 TIL Pablo Escobar once started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was cold.
p88Vp TIL that in 2004, a movie theater was found in the Paris Catacombs, with a fully stocked bar, a number of seats, and movies dating back to the 1950s.
e04B6 TIL Two metal detectorists who thought they'd found a stash of Roman gold coins they estimated to be worth £250,000 discovered the coins were actually a worthless prop for TV show The Detectorists.
NmR6 TIL Romans kept track of the years by naming them after the two consuls that year (e.g. the consulship of Vinicius and Haterius) When Julius Caesar essentially ruled alone during his “co-consulship” with Bibulus, Romans joked by referring to that year as the consulship of Julius and Caesar.