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TIL Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” made $252.4 million at the worldwide box office, over 55 times more than its production budget of $4.5 million.

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pYvmO TIL Dr. Lazarus' catchphrase, "By Grabthar's Hammer..." from Galaxy Quest (1999), was written as a temp line in the script. The plan was to replace "Grabthar" with something less comical, but the line stuck as the production crew started using it around their offices and had it printed on t-shirts.
7W6O TIL Drinking lemonade helps keep kidney stones from forming. Useful if you are prone to kidney stones.
neAjr TIL about metal coffins in the 1800’s that had a window so you could see the deceased’s face. Used mainly to deter grave robbers and endorsed by a President.
4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
KON1E TIL In 1968 MV Captain Leonidas was a ship that was tried to capsized in the deepest fjord in Western Hemisphere in Messier Channel, Pantagonia Chile. The reason was to claim insurance , but the ship stayed afloat, the captain's license was revoked & the shipwreck remained in the channel.