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TIL Snickers used to be called Marathon bars, and were renamed because of the Mars bar

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QmPM TIL that, despite box office records being broken every year, only one film in the 21st century so far has managed to sell more than 100 million tickets domestically - Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
grv7b TIL a basking shark capsized a sailing boat and drowned 3 people
grRYL TIL that five U.S. Presidents (Thomas Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Lyndon Johnson) didn’t take their Presidential Oath on a Bible.
jNBrR TIL: Richard Turner, world famous card mechanic won “Close-Up Magician of the Year” of 2014, fooled Penn & Teller on “Fooled Us” in 2017 and has a black belt in karate, has been legally blind since childhood. Dealt is a documentary about his life, career, and coming to terms with his loss of sight
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