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TIL Star Wars the Force Awakens spent $50M more on advertising and trailers ($250M) than they did on production ($200M)

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YpVVd TIL The Scunthorpe Problem. Automatic profanity filters on the Internet see banned words inside other words and create problems for users. It is named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's filter prevented Scunthorpe residents from creating accounts due to the unfortunate substring it contains.
DN1j TIL the value of Pi could be approximated with stunning accuracy by dropping a bunch of matches on a piece of paper.
WkxvY TIL mosquitoes are more attracted to people with O blood.
Bgaab TIL that the earliest working type of escalator was patented in 1892 by Jesse W. Reno, and was actually introduced in 1896 as a novelty ride at Coney Island, a theme park in New York.
RdK8 TIL in 2011, James Franco put his name behind a project called “The Museum of Non-visible Art”. A woman paid $10,000 for a non-visible piece called “Fresh Air”.