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TIL the film "Draft Day", starring Kevin Costner, had ticket sales of $878 when it was released in Vietnam on June 27, 2014.

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mxrEv TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.
ADoLl TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.
loGY5 TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)
OoWO7 TIL The radio hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20-mile (32 km) radius. It was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95 as the "Man-from-Mars Radio Hat."
e0j6J TIL that Greg LeMond, in order to win the 1986 Tour de France and become the first American to wear the Yellow Jersey, did so not only without help from his own team, but had to actively fend off their attacks.