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TIL for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, $40-$50 million was spent on developing the game, while $150-$160 million was spent on marketing.

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5YWXD TIL of the Giant Impact hypothesis, where a Mars-sized planet, Theia, is theorized to have collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The debris from both planets eventually coalesced to form the Moon.
EgoY0 TIL that despite the popular belief that the USSR possesed hundreds of ICBMs and was winning the arms race, in reality they possesed only four by 1961.
D1x8D TIL the longest confirmed family tree records belong to Chinese philosopher Confucius, stretching over 2500 years and an estimated 3 million descendants.
QeQL TIL in 2005 a Baltimore man was arrested and handcuffed to a pole for 3 hours for paying a $114 fee with 57 $2 bills. The Secret Service was called to make sure it wasn’t counterfeit money - which it indeed was not.
nerdY TIL that the common saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" was originally phrased "you can't eat your cake and have it too." This conveys the meaning of the expression much more clearly, since once you eat a cake, you can no longer have it.