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TIL that Warwick Davis currently holds the record for the highest average gross revenue for any movie he has had a part in with an average of $623,573,404 over 24 films.

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QNdvp TIL: the bill of rights had stuff in there that got “oligarched” out…
6Kwl TIL of “Zone Rouges”. Areas of France so polluted with vast amounts of human and animal remains and millions of items of unexploded ordnance from WWI that no human activity is allowed there.
WNeL TIL Mongolia’s navy consists of a tugboat manned by 7 people, only one of whom can swim
yrOM TIL the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” was originally “care killed the cat” and had a little used second part “but satisfaction brought it back”
ONp1 TIL a Japanese soldier in WWII who refused to believe the war was over held out for 29 years in the jungles of the Philippines. He didn’t “surrender” until his former commanding officer traveled to the Philippines to officially relieve him of duty.