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TIL The Grudge is part of the Japanese "Ju-On" horror film franchise, all made by the same director who found success for the movies in Japan and translated that into Hollywood

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lGBK TIL At the time of death, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the world richest man and left an estate larger than the US treasury. When 120 of his descendents gathered in 1973, there was not a millionaire among them
awj9 TIL there was a nuclear fission reactor on Earth about 1.7 billion years ago that lasted a few hundred thousand years near central Africa.
MeZ0m TIL talking aloud can be a sign of high cognitive function and it is a practice of many high performance people (including professional athletes)
loJma TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
oBmJL TIL: Moon looks reversed from Australia