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TIL at its height in the early 00s, Blockbuster Video earned nearly $800 million through late fees alone, making up 16% of its revenue.

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mxb8x TIL that 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.
6BRw TIL that in Japan you can be arrested for borrowing someone’s bike
b6LBQ TIL there is a Las Vegas, New Mexico AND that it was where most of the 1984 film Red Dawn was filmed
nW5JW TIL Les Misérables was not set during the French Revolution and instead a smaller insurrection known as The June Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of 1832
JYrrB TIL about Raven Wilkinson, the first African-American ballet dancer of a major ballet company. In 1957, Raven was once barred from staying with her troupe when an Atlanta hotel owner asked her outright if she was black. Raven quit dancing for a time, only to return to a 27 year career at NYC Opera.