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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's mother died of malaria

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9Yx96 TIL ‘The Blair Witch Project’ cost $60,000 to make and grossed $248 million, giving it a ratio of $10,931 made for every $1 spent. One of the cameras used for the production was purchased at Circuit City and then returned for a refund once filming was complete.
9Ya9M TIL baseball has no rules that state which dugout the home team must use. Major league stadiums are split, 18 have the home team on the first base side, and 12 on the third base side.
4kLb6 TIL Convicted felon in the Watergate Scandal, G. Gordon Liddy, played an antagonist called "Satori-san" in the 1990 syndicated show Super Force
pYyee TIL Edwin Drake, the first american to successfully drill for oil, was hired by the oil company because he happened to be staying at the same hotel as the oil company's owners.
R7AM8 TIL that solar power is the cheapest form of energy in history at $32.78 per MWh, and 62% of renewable energy sources are cheaper than fossil fuels overall.