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TIL that after taking inflation into account, 'Gone with the Wind' is the movie that made the most money of all time

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D1KxV TIL in 1974, a couple disappeared along with their yacht from the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll while vacationing. Theyd feuded with a man on the island, whose boat was not seaworthy and was out of supplies. 7 years later, the wife's body washed ashore Palmyra, and the man was convicted of her murder.
lrRV TIL that before the invention of the elevators, poorer tenants used to lived in higher floors equivalent to the penthouse of the modern day.
AGPw TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.
DQALg TIL that Iceland, despite being neutral, was invaded by the British in WWII.. which eventually led to their independence.