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TIL The Boondock Saints made $30,471 in its theatrical run which was at only 5 theaters for 1 week. It became a cult hit after its home release grossing about $50 million in domestic video sales but its writer/director Troy Duffy didn't see profits because he signed away DVD rights in his contract.

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NXe9J TIL about Loab, an unexpectedly emergent image from artificial intelligence (AI) research featuring a distressed macabre older woman, the subsequent iterations of which have become increasingly violent and gory.
yOeX TIL Jimmy Carter has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in protest of their treatment of women
6dB8 TIL that an average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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