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TIL Paranormal Activity (1) had a budget of $15,000 and grossed $193 million. The franchise went on to collect revenues of $890 million

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DQLdD TIL why NHL Stadiums sound an air horn after a goal is scored. Thank Bill Wirtz, owner of both Chicago Stadium and the Blackhawks, who liked the sound of his air horn on his yacht, so he had one installed inside the stadium in 1973. His uncle's company made it, and most NHL horns come from them.
6EDYY TIL only 1% of DNA is for protein-coding genes, the rest 99% is non-coding and was once thought to be junk. Later studies found that it can't be that such a huge chunk is just "packaging material" and it is starting to become clear that it has many uses, mainly as a regulator of different sorts
vwgD TIL: Sting earns 100% of the royalties ($2000 a day) from Puff Daddys’ song ‘I’ll be missing you’, because Puff Daddy didn’t ask permission to use the sample from 'Every breath you take’
xjgw TIL That Herbert Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin when living in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and would speak it in the White House to foil eavesdroppers.
ynpa TIL that the difference in color of green/yellow/red bell peppers is their stage in the ripening process, not that they are different varieties.