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TIL Director Eli Roth brought a TV with him to the Peruvian jungle to show villagers the movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ - It was the first movie they’d ever seen and they loved it

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4XPJw TIL with the exception of Brazilian Cachaça, the USA does not have specific geographical indications for Rum produced in various locations (e.g., Jamaican, Martinique, Dominican Republic, etc.) as it does with other spirits.
gnRA TIL China consumes 42.5 billion packets of instant noodle per year. That’s mean more than 100 million packs are eaten in each day
0wgpR TIL that stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a ghost writing contest. These stories later turned into Frankenstein (Shelley) and The Vampyre (Polidori), the latter of which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
7rDRL TIL that McDonald's restaurants made about $37.5 billion in the U.S. in 2017 and the CEO has an annual salary of $15 million.
KOKlQ TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.