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TIL The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14million) that the network president was fired for greenlighting it.

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0wAPA TIL that 41% of Australians don't know how long it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun.
wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
M7db TIL that in 1967 the two factions involved in the Nigerian civil war declared a 48 hour ceasefire in order to watch Pele play in a football (soccer) match.
9wNVB TIL That in 2007 David Letterman became so obsessed with the Michael Martin Murphey song "Wildfire", discussing and dissecting the lyrics with Paul Schaffer among other things, that it culminated in the then 62 year old Murphey being invited to perform the song on "Late Night".
e07Dg TIL Shirley Temple (yes, the iconic child star) served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia.