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TIL in 2014, John Wick, then known as Scorn, had no distributor as late as 2 months before its release and came very close to going direct-to-DVD.

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p8Dv4 TIL: How Many Locusts Does It Take to Start a Biblical Plague? Just three.
lb6G TIL the oft quoted statement that there are more people alive now than have ever died is complete fiction. Current estimates put the number of people that have ever died to be ~107 billion
Z8md4 TIL that the Oneida Community, a religious communal society in which older women acted as sexual "mentors" to adolescent boys, eventually dissolved and became a silverware company that is still in business today
78PBM TIL 42 was the last natural number below 100 whose representation as a sum of three cubes was found (in 2019). The representation is: (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
7rywp TIL about Lunar lava tubes - Tunnels under the surface of the moon, kilometers long, hundreds of meters wide. Shelter from radiation and extreme temperatures. Can be used for habitation.