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TIL Spaceballs budget($22,700,000) was over twice Star Wars ($11,000,000)

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Z8P1p Today I learned A cat's purr might also mean they are in pain
xVGDk TIL after learning of Napoleon escape from Elba Four Great Powers declared Napoleon an outlaw and declared war not on France but to Napoleon personally
E55w TIL after a hijacked Ethiopian Air jet crashed in the ocean, an estimated 60-80 people who survived the initial water-crash ignored the captains pleas to not inflate the life vests inside the plane. They all drowned when rushing water pinned their inflated vests against the fuselage’s ceiling.
Egd1d TIL a $125 million Royal Navy F-35 crashed into the ocean because a ground crew member left a cover on one of the intakes.
rRoBw TIL of Sonya Golden Hand, a Russian female con artist who committed several carefully planned robberies and stole tens of thousands of rubles. She was eventually captured and exiled to a penal colony. She was moved into solitary confinement after trying to escape the colony dressed as a guard.