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TIL if all the water on earth is bunched up into a ball, it’s radius will be less than 700 KM.

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0wrVM TIL about Price's Law. In any productive population, the square root of the population generates 50% of the output. (E.g out of 10,000 farmers only 100 produce 50% of the food).
Mwpm TIL Star Wars the Force Awakens spent $50M more on advertising and trailers ($250M) than they did on production ($200M)
vKoK TIL Mark Hamill was in a car accident that caused substantial facial trauma a day before he finished shooting the original Star Wars. An in-universe explanation for his scarring was developed for The Empire Strikes Back, where he is mauled by a Wampa, allowing him to continue the trilogy.
Pk4n TIL that despite dying in 1976, billionaire Howard Hughes (THE AVIATOR) had no living will and his estate was not fully dispersed until 2010, 34 years later
491J TIL - That in 1916, there was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would have put Declarations of War to a National vote, and those voting for War would automatically volunteer for Military service.