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TIL that James Cameron's "True Lies" was the first movie to have a $100 million budget

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pdVp TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to write the Declaration of Independence as they were afraid he would write a joke in it.
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
OGDlg TIL Tetris helps cope with trauma
6EyeJ TIL the Artugrul from turkish akes place in the 13th century, and put the Kayi flags all over the world
j6w5R TIL one of the reasons LBJ didn’t pursue another presidential term 1969-1973 was because an actuarial committee (accurately) predicted he would die at age 64, when he would still be in office. He died 2 days after the 1973 inauguration.