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TIL “Avengers: Endgame” no longer had the biggest opening weekend ever in a single market by 2021. It was surpassed by a Chinese film called “Detective Chinatown 3” with a $398M opening in China, overtaking Avengers: Endgame’s North American launch of $357M in 2019.

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dDDGB TIL starting today in the US, the new suicide and mental health hotline is 988. Goal is to make it easier for people to call for help.
nWXR9 TIL of the Cycloped, a "train" entered into the Rainhill Trials, a competition between engineers to design the most efficient locomotive. It consisted of a horse on treadmill, could only reach speeds of 5 MPH, and was disqualified after it fell through the platform.
gmN7 TIL that Dr. Ruth was trained as a sniper by the Israeli army and she was seriously wounded in an explosion during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
bNKp TIL Dave Chapelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, however turned down the part as he considered it “demeaning” and thought the movie would flop.
KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.