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TIL that Florida is the flattest US state

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0dPOM TIL the first actor to ever earn a $1 million salary for a single film is Elizabeth Taylor for Cleopatra (1963). She also secured 10% of the gross profits & add-ons if the filming ran over, which it did. In total, she earned around $7 million for the movie ($69 million in 2023 money).
BrjJk TIL that after 360 years in Africa, 96.3% of Afrikaner DNA is still European
jdNX TIL a marketer for Kraft Foods rotated their square Shreddies cereal 45 degrees, and re-marketed them as the new “Diamond Shreddies”. The new product showed a large increase in sales and test groups even reported a difference in flavor.
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