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TIL: Adjusted for inflation Gone with the wind(1939) is the highest-grossing movie of all time.

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LkQdP TIL Security company Cloudflare uses a camera pointed at a wall of 100 lava lamps to generate the random numbers used to encrypt approximately 10% of all internet traffic
bpMp TIL that the “Somebody Else’s Problem” cloaking field described in the “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is based on a real psychological effect.
xyQD TIL one out of every four animals on Earth is a beetle.
aZo TIL that the word “oxymoron” is an oxymoron itself. In Greek, it translates to “sharp dull”.
9YOV7 TIL In 2014, Walter Williams was pronounced dead. Paperwork was completed, he was put in a body bag and taken to a funeral home. When he was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move and the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. He was still alive. Two weeks later he died for real.