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TIL no movies featuring an exploding helicopter has ever won a Best Picture Academy Award

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VnbD TIL that stonehenge was rebuilt in the 1950’s. Nearly all the stones have been moved in some way and some are set in concrete.
16oDr TIL: In 2021, the man with the largest family in India died. He had 39 wives, 94 kids, and 33 grandchildren. He was the head of a religious sect and lived in a pink complex with 100 rooms. He once married 10 wives in a year and would have 7-8 by his side at all times.
7ZVr TIL 4,000 McDonald’s hamburgers are eaten every minute. That’s also the number of burgers they get from one cow.
n8DG TIL when the bees in a region of China disappeared, people pollinated apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers. When humans pollinated, apple production increased 30-40%.
EeVX TIL: Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street) was paid $1.045 M for the rights to his story and in the year he was paid, he only repaid $21,000 toward victim restitution.