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TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the highest grossing film actor of all time

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Y7OnW TIL The Lion King musical is both: the highest-grossing musical theatre production ever at roughly $1.9 billion and also the highest-grossing musical theatre franchise ever with a global total of about $8.2 billion.
x68w5 TIL Mozart's middle name is not Amadeus. It's a latinized version of his real middle name Theophilus and probably facetious.
x6aMo TIL that blueberries can turn your poop black
4kVWw TIL about the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party - a socialist party in 1920s Japan that was dissolved by authorities only 2 hours after it was created.
5YN1D TIL About Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the "Lion of (East) Africa". He was a General for Imperial Germany under Wilhelm II during the First World War, known as one of the greatest Generals of WW1 he was "the only German Commander to successfully invade the British Empire during WW1"