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TIL Actors have to pay 30k to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame

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nZ0b TIL that 98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men
QN05L TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 30-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 320 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.
6Eba8 Today I learned that the Royal Navy's Baltic fleet in 1855 consisted of 93 ships.
DmXj TIL of a Plastic-Eating Mushroom was Discovered in the Amazon Rainforest
RWoQ TIL that the smallest Hawaiian Island, widely known as The Forbidden Isle, is owned by two brothers that inherited from their great-great-grandmother who purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000 in gold. They have turned down all offers to sell it including $1 billion from the U.S. government