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TIL Samuel L Jackson is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest grossing actor of all time. His movies had made more than $7.4 billion as of 2011.

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R77pl TIL that, in 1941, when Cernauti mayor Traian Popovici was told that the Jews in his city were going to be deported, he argued against it and was initially allowed to exempt 200 Jews. However, he argued for more and was thus ultimately able to get 20,000 Jews exempted from deportation.
YpGlA TIL that it is custom in Indian culture to give gifts in amounts like $101 and $501, especially at weddings. This is to support the idea that, like the gift, the couple is indivisable
b66aN TIL about "Old Tjikko" one of the world's oldest tree-organisms, estimated to be well over 9500 years old.
O9W1 TIL: In 1976, Eric Clapton made a speech at a concert encouraging the British audience to vote for Enoch Powell, saying that Britain needed to “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out”, and repeatedly shouting “Keep Britain White”. In response, Rock Against Racism was formed.
GYB6J TIL the idea of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell, calling them "dark stars" and proposing a method to detect them by looking for star systems that showed the gravitational effects of two stars, but only one star was visible, which is indeed how scientists look for them today