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TIL that with a budget of $25,000 and a profit of $22.5 million, the film with the highest percentage of return on investment (90,000%) is 1972‘s “Deep Throat”.

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kjwg TIL that Iran is the only country in the world that allows citizens to trade kidneys for money via a regulated marketplace. There is no waiting list for transplant patients. Citizens are even exempted from military service if they donate as the gvt. contends they have already served their country.
b9wDa TIL the expression “sweating like a pig” makes absolutely zero sense. Pigs are physically incapable of sweating.
vlvj TIL any member of the French Foreign Legion wounded while defending France can immediately apply for French citizenship as he is “French by spilled blood”
wve6 TIL a lost report on Christopher Columbus from c.1500 came to light in 2006 accusing him of tyranny, torture, mutilation and parading native women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery.Columbus was imprisoned on his return to Spain.
KRDQ TIL Snuffeupagus became a real character (instead of Big Bird’s imaginary friend) because of a string of high profile child sexual abuse cases. The writers didn’t want children to be afraid of telling their parents about being abused because of the fear of not being believed.