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TIL that while filming Mimic, director Guillermo del Toro's father was kidnapped. The kidnappers demanded $1 million but del Toro already put all his money into the movie. James Cameron came in and gave him the $1 million in cash while also recommending a negotiator.

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R5WZ4 TIL The African continent is being split in two by a 46 km (35 mile) long crack and will be two seperate land massess in a couple of million years.
Eb80 TIL there is another country inside Rome besides the Vatican. It has 3 inhabitants.
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
KD6B TIL drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano once bet $2 million on a soccer game. They each hand-picked a dream team of professional soccer players and flew them to Escobar’s home to play the game on his own private field (fast forward to 25:51).
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels