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TIL Warner Bros cancelled Home Alone because they didn't want to spend $14,7 million on it. 21st Century Fox continued the production and the film grossed $476 millions worldwide.

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oR9LY TIL Pandas survived for at least eight million years. However, it has been proven that the panda has barely evolved in basic structure, meaning that they have had minimal change since the beginning of their time.
m1ajP TIL of Derinkuyu, an ancient underground city in Turkey. 18 stories deep, it housed 20,000 people, protecting them from attacks for months. It had stables, schools & wineries, and was used for millennia til the 20s. It was found by a man whose chickens kept going in a crevasse & never coming back
ZpZR TIL that the sentence, “I never said she stole my money,” has 7 different meanings depending on the word you stress.
0571 [TIL] Four months after shooting American Sniper Chris Kyle dead, Eddie Routh confessed “I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me.”
YpWZA TIL that Steve Young, 3x Super Bowl champion and 2x NFL MVP, was the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, the 2nd president of the LDS church. In college, Steve played football at BYU, the university named after his great-great-great-grandfather.