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TIL that Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to produce, and grossed about 10 times more than the production price.

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woeNM TIL about William Dampier, a naturalist who used piracy as a means to explore the world. He was the first Englishman to explore parts of Australia, one of Charles Darwin's inspirations and introduced the words "barbecue", "avocado", "chopsticks", and "subspecies" into the English language.
0wjBA TIL Astronaut John Young was the only astronaut until now to command four different types of spacecraft: Gemini capsule, Apollo Module, Lunar Landing Module and Space Shuttle
5YaZ8 TIL between 1990 and 1998 the population of water voles in the UK dropped from 2.2 million to just 354k or 750k, depending on the source.
gaaA TIL Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children. Left with a day’s worth of food and wine, by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd.
pYBeA TIL, the common first name Stacy is the diminutive form of the name Anastasia.