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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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4XKDa Til the Statue of Liberty's hand sat in Madison Square park for 6 years before being installed. While the French paid for the statue, the US didn't want to pay for the pedestal, so to raise money, photographs were sold to tourists and for 50 cents, you could climb a ladder to the top of the torch.
P1eoZ TIL Fela Kuti's 1977 album Zombie was critical of the Nigerian government and referred to soldiers as zombies who blindly followed orders. In anger, they raided Kuta's commune and severely beat Kuta and his mother. She was thrown from a second floor window resulting in a coma which led to her death.
16bJd TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first civilian in the United States to purchase a Humvee military vehicle. He loved it so much that he pushed its manufacturer to develop a street-legal, civilian version, which was released in 1992 as the Hummer H1.
YpoWP TIL only two people worked on the first prototypes of 1991's hit grand strategy videogame "Sid Meier's Civilization"
eWO5 TIL mathematician Zachary Harris hacked into Google’s email system and sent a e-mail phishing attack to Larry Page from Sergey Brin’s e-mail account. All because he noticed a flaw in an e-mail sent from Google offering him a job and thought it was a test. It wasn’t.