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TIL that Corinna Kopf retires from OF at 28 after earning $67 million over three years. In comparison, Keanu Reeves has earned a combined total of $22 million for the four John Wick films he has done, which is less than the average yearly payday of Kopf on OF.

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d85DE TIL of HMS Electra, a British WW2 destroyer that saved the three survivors of HMS Hood, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at the Battle of Kuantan, and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet, buying time for the crippled cruiser HMS Exeter to escape.
R58Zl TIL: In 2019, Vice discovered that a growing number of Chinese women were turning to paid virtual boyfriends. The interactions mainly consist of them being hired to sing them to sleep, send them compliments, and chat with them via text or call.
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
LQg0V TIL the full wedding saying is "Speak your piece now or forever hold your peace."
R5jwl TIL Apocalypse Now began script prep in the late 1960s. In 1976, four months into filming, Coppola still hadn’t finished the script and kept delaying Brando’s access to it. He wrote to Brando, asking him to join on set to collaborate on a slow rewrite. Brando and Coppola spent 10 days reshaping it.