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TIL Zoe Saldana is the only person to appear in 2 movies making $2 billion or more in the box office.

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kEb7 TIL Folk-hero John Henry (who according to legend, beat a steam drill in a tunnel-digging contest, and who died soon after from exhaustion), may have actually been a real person.
x6ol5 TIL Servilia's pearl was a black pearl given by Julius Caesar to his favourite mistress. According to Suetonius it was worth 6 million sesterces (approximately $1.5 billion now.)
78Ver TIL Edward Dando was a legendary thief known for eating -300 oysters and never paying, numerous articles, poems and street ballads were written about him and Charles Dickens compared him to Alexander the Great
bRAj TIL the French term for Brass Knuckles is “poing américain”, which literally translates to “American fist”
Bgamb TIL that when a metaphor stops needing its imagery to be understood and becomes idiomatic ("footage", "fly off the handle", "blow off steam"), it is considered "dead".