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TIL that the movie Tangled was more expensive than Avatar. In fact it’s the second most expensive movie of all time.

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w5DY TIL that a historian in the Warsaw Ghetto organized a massive effort to record everything that was happening there, including everything from diaries to photographs and letters. The collection, called Oyneg Shabbos, was buried in three places in 1943, and the largest part hasn’t yet been found.
Br80d TIL of Green Boots, the body of an unidentified mountaineer that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route to the summit of Mount Everest. As of 2019, over 300 people have died on Everest and many of their bodies remain on the mountain.
MeYDA TIL the remains of an 18th century ship originating from Philadelphia was found during construction of the new World Trade Center in 2014
XVwP TIL that the bodies of three women were recovered and the only piece of evidence was a scrap of paper. The writing on the paper was duplicated,magnified, and placed on billboards. 3 days later a serial killer was in custody.
nW5L9 TIL Genghis Khan set up an institution that ensured complete religious freedom in the Mongol empire, though he himself was a Tengrist (religion originating from the Eurasian steppes)