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TIL the most expensive marketing campaign ever done for a film was for Spider-Man: Far from Home

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V9R4 TIL the “Wa” in Wario and Waluigi isn’t an upturned M, it’s a portmanteau of Mario and Luigi’s name and the Japanese adjective warui which means “bad”, literally translating to “bad Mario” or “bad Luigi”.
rR7py TIL that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never watched the Pilot Episode of Seinfeld due to her not being aware of its existence before she was cast as Elaine
nevQP TIL that the average Chinese consumer has only 70g of chocolate a year while the average European consumer has 7kg
5YD0k TIL that in 1894, President Grover Cleveland sent the Army to stop the Pullman Strike (manufacturer of railroad cars) and 30 strikers were killed
o9b8 TIL an Australian was responsible for the discovery of Tritium & Helium-3, conducted the first nuclear fusion experiment and convinced the Americans an atomic bomb was feasible, thus beginning the Manhattan Project.