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TIL Wikipedia doesn’t even need that much money

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NXpY1 TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"
jNwWN TIL the Pentagon has worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles. If there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD don’t approve of, a film-maker who uses military equipment has to make changes to accommodate the military’s demands.
xVwNk TIL that at his insistence (citing that it would be "blood money"), all royalties from Schindler's List, that would normally have gone to Steven Spielberg instead are given to the Shoah Foundation which records and preserves written and videotaped testimonies from survivors of genocide worldwide.
49Zg TIL That in 2011, a man killed his wife in a Walmart she worked at. Instead of closing the store, Walmart just roped off the part of the store covered in blood.
EB1V TIL an error of Costa Rica’s border on Google Maps led to an invasion of Costa Rica by the army of Nicaragua. Google responded, saying that their Maps “shouldn’t be used as a reference to decide military actions between countries”.