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TIL movie theaters mark up popcorn an average of 1275 percent.

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p8GXZ TIL that when Charles Darwin was a teenager, his father told him "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."
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