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TIL the movie Sahara (2005) was plagued with production problems which doubled its budget from $80M to $160M, lawsuits among the crew and being accused of violations of international law. It made $119M but failed to recoup its costs and is listed among the biggest box office failures of all time

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ADvBB TIL Frankenstein's monster as a character is public domain, as the novel was written in 1818, but the visual portrayal most people are familiar with (greenish skin, square-ish head, bolts in the neck, etc.) is the intellectual property of Universal Studios, as it originated in the 1931 film.
4keBX TIL of Peter Buxtun, a Public Health Service epidemiologist, exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by filing two protests with his superiors. His actions led to the story making the front page of The New York Times the following day and prompted the call for congressional hearings.
pwO4 TIL American presidential widows are entitled to secret service protection and the ability to mail letters without postage until they remarry or die
NXvmJ TIL that a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia for saying there's no need to be afraid of scary-looking insects. In the episode the dad tells his daughter that spiders are "very very small" and "can't hurt you".
BxxD TIL former Scretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was missing for about 25 minutes on the morning of 9/11. He was in the parking lot of the Pentagon helping to carry away survivors on stretchers