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TIL: The Lord of the Rings trilogy made ‘horrendous losses’ despite being huge box office success

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rEkw TIL that high dream recallers have stronger brain activity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) and in Temporo-perietal Junction (TPJ); this makes them wake up many times during sleep and enables them to remember dreams more efficiently than low dream recallers.
yVYl8 TIL the Whitworth rifle, used during the Civil War, is considered the first "sniper rifle", accurate at distances up to 1800m (2000 yd) when equipped with a 4x scope
b97x4 TIL that many popular rural-oriented television shows, including Lassie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Hee Haw, were all canceled in 1971 in what is known as the "Rural Purge"
PRnE TIL that humans/human relatives lived in San Diego, California 130,000 years ago, according to recent archaeological findings. The discovery is 115,000 years older than any other such evidence previously found in the Americas.
ROLj TIL Ralph Wiggum was not canonically made to be Chief Wiggum’s son until season 4. The two characters were developed independently and only later the writers decided to make them father and son.