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TIL the most profitable movie of all time percentage-wise (box office over to budget) is the porno "Deep Throat".

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kOrA4 TIL sections of a 2500 year old Greek play believed to have been lost forever in the fire that destroyed the great Library of Alexandria were rediscovered on papyrus stuffed inside an Egyptian mummy. The pages were later translated and used in an actual play that was presented to audiences
5V8oR TIL of the saola aka 'the Asian unicorn'. It is one of the world's rarest large mammals and is a forest-dwelling bovine native to Vietnam and Laos. It was first described and photographed in 1993. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, but they died within weeks and months.
pYo84 TIL that the wood-frame architecture of the Forbidden City could withstand a hypothetical magnitude 10 earthquake
8ayob TIL about body snatchers aka "resurrection men", paid men that were ought to do grave-robbing. These men provided a number of schools with cadavers, and members of the schools would use influence to keep these men out of jail. People (alive) used Railings to protect graves from body snatchers.
d8Y9 TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.