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TIL that soap operas have their distinct look due to their significant restrained budgets, leading to cost-saving lighting methodologies and video storage formats (including VHS tapes)

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oBYM7 TIL in 1998 Guillermo Del Toro's father was kidnapped in Guadalajara and James Cameron gave 1 million dollars cash to get him released.
D1L1e TIL why most people aren't happy with their way of living
VGw0 TIL For the last fifty years of her life, Mother Teresa had lost her faith. In private letters to friends and confessors she acknowledged repeatedly that she no longer felt the presence of God in her life at all, and once described her pretense at faith as “hypocrisy”.
m1kvR TIL of Black Caesar. He was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew following Blackbeard’s death at the hands of Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718.
eKWD TIL in Battle of Saragarhi in 1897, 21 Sikhs soldiers of the then British Indian army fought 10000 Afghan tribal and killed over 600 of then before they were cut down to the last man