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TIL the 1984 film, ‘Romancing the Stone’ was called a 'Raiders of the Lost Ark’ rip-off by TIME. The screenplay was actually written 5 years earlier by a Malibu waitress who died in a car crash shortly after the film’s release

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X0AgQ TIL Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a playboy who liked to party
ayYM TIL the “Love you Forever” children’s book is actually about the author’s “dead babies.”
0wD1p TIL: Despite thinking of ourselves as the masters of the planet, the average Hurricane releases energy equivalent of our largest ever nuclear bomb every 60 minutes and produces 5 times the energy the entire human race uses in a year.
Z16o TIL the Netherlands is the world’s second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products, after the United States despite having one of the largest population densities of the world.
XrQQ TIL: The Lead Masks Case refers to the discovery of the bodies of two electronic technicians in Brazil in 1966. The bodies were found in a field wearing impermeable coats and lead masks. Even stranger was the discovery of a small notebook beside the bodies with signs and numbers