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W8Ad TIL that the inventor or the smiley face symbol Harvey Ball, was paid just $45 for the design.
jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
nWYW TIL the Moon is about 400 times smaller than the Sun, but it also just happens to be about 400 times closer. The result is that from Earth, they appear to be the same size.
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l7eEA TIL If the human sperm succeeds in penetrating a hamster egg, a hybrid embryo is created. This is known as a humster