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TIL when James Cameron was an unknown director, he sold the rights to "The Terminator" for $1 so that he would be allow to direct the movie.

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grmmb TIL that after South Korea beat Germany at the FIFA World Cup 2018, ensuring Mexico’s place in the knockout, hundreds of Mexican fans descended on the South Korean embassy in Mexico City to celebrate
M7gOV TIL: Life expectancy in the USA (77.28 years) is almost 6 years lower than Australia (83.20 years)
16BDV TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal
6E9N8 TIL that fortune telling is a crime in New York State and carries a potential penalty of 3 months in jail
Z8YEY TIL that during the Gulf War, when faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers American forces decided to simply use combat earthmovers and bury the enemy soldiers alive