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TIL Soylent Green was set in the year 2022

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PVOE TIL that in the classic 1938 Errol Flynn film “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” the producers wanted a realistic ‘look’ when people were killed by arrows. Instead of SFX or editing tricks, they just hired an expert archer to shoot extras wearing padding. Extras were paid $150 each time they were shot.
9Y18r TIL In 1997 CBS bought the rights to Family Matters for $40 million. It was cancelled a year later.
yQXke TIL the Alabama State Capital building is located on the same plot of land as the "First White House of the Confederacy," inhabited by Jefferson Davis in 1861 when Montgomery, Alabama was the Confederacy's interim capital
moxx TIL of Exercise Tiger, a preparation exercise resulting in more casualties than the actual Utah landing at Normandy months later. A terrible disaster, a complete information blackout was ordered
EgMZo TIL that octopuses have three hearts—two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. What's even crazier? The heart that pumps to the rest of the body actually stops beating when the octopus swims!