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TIL the movie Saw (2004) was shot in just 18 days with a budget under a million dollars, and grossed more than $100 million at the box office.

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J1nvQ TIL during ancient Rome, common citizens would partake in a form of rebellion known as "Secessions of the Plebeians." This involved the evacuation of entire cities, leaving the privileged nobility to fend for themselves.
N74EN TIL the CIA once "kidnapped" a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing.
vPObr TIL: the german general population under Hitler never actually got the Volkswagen beetle. There was a stamp lottery to get one that never finished before total war broke out. The first deliveries happened after the fall of the nazis.