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TIL that Bruce Willis walked away from the Expendables 3 because he wanted 4 million dollars instead of 3 million (for four days of work).

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wyQo TIL Joe Arridy was named the happiest inmate on death row. He had an IQ of 46 and played with a toy train given to him by the prison Warden. Due to his lack of understanding, he smiled on the his way to the gas chamber
VBv1B TIL: Leonidas of Rhodes, ancient Greek runner whose record of most individual Olympic victories was unbroken until 2016 by Michael Phelps
ANkD4 TIL that the highest grossing film theatrically is about humanity getting their ass kicked out by an alien species while the second highest is about an alien species getting their ass kicked out by humanity.
nQaB TIL that the external fuel tank on the space shuttles were originally painted white, but it turned out this added 600 lbs of paint to the shuttle so it was kept the normal orange color
Xvmr TIL the Euro currency was designed featuring imagery of fictitious bridges to represent architectural stylings throughout time in Europe, also serving to not feature one country while discriminating others. The Netherlands then built the bridges anyways