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TIL that Halle Berry earned a extra $500,000 to flash her breasts in Swordfish.

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m1keR TIL Arlington, TX is the largest city in the US without public transport. Despite having 390k population and major stadiums, it have no single bus or rail line.
epAX6 TIL that US aircraft carriers John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and Kitty Hawk (CV-63), which cost the modern-day equivalent of US$2.5 billion each when built, were both sold to scrap merchants in 2021 for the price of a penny.
gM8Gy TIL American accents are more homogeneous than British accents. There are fewer distinct dialects in the US than in the UK
wkEo TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson) is a master woodworker who made a marijuana stash box and “Lord of the Rings styled pipe” to smoke out of.
GAn61 TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"