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TIL Global box office revenue for movies has increased 52% since 2001

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YpRKZ TIL Kurt Warner was cut from the NFL and got a job at a grocery store in Iowa. Four years later, at 27, Warner would lead the St. Louis Rams to their only Super Bowl Championship, setting several league records, as well as being the only player in history to win the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP
ELnp TIL The only captured battle flag from the Civil War not returned to its state is Virginia’s. It was captured by Minnesota at the Battle of Gettysburg. Congress ordered its return in 1905.
AD4po TIL that according to the FCC, as of 2018, there are still 100,000 pay phones left in the United States.
jmMj TIL that a da Vinci painting “Madonna of the Yarwinder” was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle by two thieves posing as tourists who claimed to be undercover police. It was found four years later in a lawyer’s office in Glasgow.
R50gw TIL only one species of gilled mushroom grows underwater.