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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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NXEnN TIL the "ampersand" character is intended to depict the two characters of the Latin word "et", meaning "and", that it was once considered the 27th letter of the alphabet, and that it's name comes from the phrase "and per se and".
J1Qdm TIL about Arthur Wermuth, a U.S. Army Captain from South Dakota who was placed with the 57th Infantry ((Philippine Scouts). He performed "countless" guerrilla missions against the Japanese, often alone or with his friend Sergeant "Jock" Crispin Jacob, and earned the nickname "Ghost of Bataan."
ewy5 TIL clover lawns stay short, are drought resistant (stay green), resist pet urine, grow in bad soil, need little to no maintenance, and clover is a nitrogen fixer.
kJYJ7 TIL that Michael Tolotos, who lived atop the monastery at the Mount Athos, died without ever knowing what a woman looked like
4Xre5 TIL that blink-182 was forced by the American Red Cross to remove a red cross from the artwork for their album "Enema of the State" as it was a violation of the international Geneva Conventions.