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TIL that the ‘Moneyball’ movie cost more to make than the 2002 Oakland A’s payroll (the team the movie is based after).

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6EGQX TIL that whale meat was the single biggest source of meat in Japan from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Whaling only took off in the country as a result of a food shortage after World War II.
wED6 TIL that pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
dka7 TIL in 2002, while returning to the US, the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier stopped in Australia, where the sailors wore out the local sex workers to the point the brothel had to close down temporarily.
xeXw TIL Glen Howerton (Dennis from Its Always Sunny in Philidelphi) is fluent in Mandarin, Spanish, and Korean (and English).
JYLjB TIL unicode standard classifies symbols in groups called "planes". Three planes are enough to code nearly all written languages both extant and extinct, music, mathemathical, emojis and game symbols, and there are still 10 planes completely available for future use.