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TIL The Dead Sea Shrinks About 3 Feet Every Year And Will Be Gone In 30 Years.

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kOrY1 TIL Robert Rodriguez and John Malkovich made a film that will not come out until 97 years from now. The film is being kept in a high-tech safe behind bulletproof glass that will open automatically on 18 November 2115, the day of the film's premiere.
R7J0j TIL that many movie studios have avoided paying taxes/royalties that rely on a movie’s net profits, by using creative methods to reduce or eliminate the reported profits, also called “Hollywood Accounting”.
negMo TIL That the adjective "excruciating" comes from crucifixion; "out of crucifying."
nl0d TIL An Australian bandit wrote an 8,000 word letter justifying his actions and gave it to a teller at a bank he robbed.
drWj TIL IBM coined and popularized the word hexadecimal because the correct latin word- sexadecimal- was too racy