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TIL the lowest grossing film ever made $30 on a $2 million budget

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rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
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lo8OB TIL in "A Christmas Story," Ralphie says he wants the Red Ryder BB Gun 28 times throughout the course of the movie. That's approximately once every three minutes and 20 seconds.
6EnvY TIL the identity of the man who provided critical details to WaPo, leading to the 1972 Watergate scandal, was kept secret until 2005. He went by the pseudonym Deep Throat.
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