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TIL The worst opening weekend ever for a movie goes to ‘United Passions,’ which tells the story of how FIFA was formed, earning only $918 in its first three days

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xVbKB TIL- The Guy Fawkes mask used by a number of activist groups (including anti-capitalist groups) is copyrighted and owned by Time Warner. Everytime a mask is purchased, Time Warner get paid.
yVDVe TIL about Preserved Fish, a prominent NYC shipping merchant who sailed to the Pacific in his youth aboard a whaling vessel, became Captain Preserved Fish at 21 and amassed a fortune selling whale oil before his death in 1846.
mxLep TIL Cross River gorillas are the rarest of all great apes and were unknown to scientists until the early 20th century. They were forgotten, then “rediscovered” after scientists had believed the gorillas had become extinct
nWrdb TIL that Benjamin Franklin did not suggest a Turkey as the national bird of the US. He instead wrote a letter criticizing the use of a Bald Eagle as the icon of a fraternal society, claiming the bird was "lazy," "a rank coward," "of bad moral character," and that a Turkey was much more respectable.
JQlk TIL in the 1970s Intervision Song Contest, the Communist equivalent to Eurovision, viewers would vote by turning on lights at a given moment; power plants would measure the load to help determine the winner