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TIL That tootsie Rolls saved troops in North Korea.

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kp64 TIL Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature, Pi, was financed entirely from $100 donations from friends and family. In return, he promised to pay each donor back $150 if the film made money, and receive on-screen credit if the film lost money. On a budget of $60,000, the film grossed a total of $3,221,152.
Z8PWR TIL The Beastie Boys have turned down tens of millions of dollars in potential revenue by refusing to allow their songs to be featured in advertisements. MCA Yauch's will explicitly forbid the usage of any of his songs for ads. Monster Energy drink did anyway, without permission and were sued.
jN1Pa TIL As the 2011Joplin Tornado hit the local pizza hut, store manager, Christopher Lucas herded 4 employees and 15 customers into a walk-in freezer. Since the door could not shut, he wrapped a bungee cable holding the door shut around his arm until he was sucked into the tornado, killing him.
78krp TIL Olbers's paradox: for centuries there was no widely-accepted explanation for why the night sky is dark (if the universe is infinite, eternal, and/or static, the night sky shouldn't be dark)
69NE7 TIL lumps of ice from 5 kg to more than 50 kg in mass can form in the atmosphere and hit the ground like a meteor.