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TIL that the billionaire Jon Jiang produced Empires of the Deep, a $130-million fantasy film with his girlfriend as a main character. The movie had a chaotic production involving 5 successive directors and 10 writers, was completed in 2010 but failed to find distribution, and remains unreleased.

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DQPPV TIL that scientists have discovered a tiny parasitic wasp that turns spiders into zombie bodyguards. This wasp, known as Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, injects its eggs into a spider, which then continues to perform its regular tasks but ultimately sacrifices itself to protect the developing wasps.
grvmy TIL the Swedish military goes by mission command rather than chain of command. Meaning orders & rules can be ignored if they interfere with objectives. This led to some friction in Bosnia as Nordbat 2 would ignore UNs rules of engagement to obtain the primary objective of preserving civilian lives.
7A8r TIL Stan Musial and his high school basketball teammates threatened to forfeit a basketball tournament because their hotel’s restaurant wouldn’t seat their two African-American teammates with the rest of the team. One of those players was Buddy Griffey, Ken’s father and Jr’s Grandpa
9YX7X TIL McDonald's lost more than half its employees over just 5 years(2013-2018)
nWrMB TIL elephants were used as executioners in some ancient cultures. In India, for example, rogue elephants were sometimes trained to execute criminals by crushing them with their massive weight.