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TIL Grand Theft Auto V cost $265 million to make -- the largest budget of any video game at that time -- but turned around and made $1 billion in its first 72 hours

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16w6r TIL that the 1876 United States presidential election is the only election where the losing candidate won a majority (rather than a plurality) of the popular vote.
PYwO TIL Some Russian yachts offer “pirate hunting” cruises off Somali coast where yacht owners provide AK-47’s for a chance to kill pirates.
4XVDb TIL that Mork And Mindy was one of the first sit-coms to use four cameras instead of three. Show-runner Garry Marshall added a fourth camera in order to capture Robin Williams' unpredictable and ''psychically active'' performance.
E1Yvw TIL Chiropractic is actually a form of "alternative medicine", where studies have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective and collectively found that spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.
8axyK TIL the oldest existing, continually operating higher education institution in the world is the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco - it was founded in 859CE by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri.