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TIL Tyler Perry’s films are so profitable because he uses his own studios (Tyler Perry Studios), which occupy two former Delta Air Lines affiliated buildings including over 200,000 sq ft. of sets and office space. The Walking Dead also utilizes Tyler Perry Studios to film scenes in The Kingdom.

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R58Qj TIL there was a Baywatch spin-off show called "Baywatch Nights", starring David Hasselhoff. Intended to be a grounded procedural crime show, it pivoted in its 2nd season to being a full-on paranormal show with monsters, ghosts, mummies, vampires, parallel universes, and time travel a la The X-Files.
nJg9 TIL Jack Johnson, the first black man to hold the World Heavyweight Title, also invented the wrench… in 1922.
v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.
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QJ5KE TIL: It would take 176 hours to charge an iPhone 11 Pro with the electricity generated by the average human brain. On average, at any given moment, your brain’s electricity is outputting roughly 0.085 Watts of power.