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TIL: The French filmmaker who wrote and directed The Red Balloon also invented the board game Risk.

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69P5Z TIL The "Burly Brawl" fight sequence in The Matrix Reloaded cost $40 million
Eg6L7 TIL Many of the dinosaurs featured in Jurassic Park, such as Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, did not evolve until after the Jurassic Period was over
81LV TIL When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Otto Von Bismarck (the man who unified Germany) responded that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
W7MZd TIL about the submarine USS Chopper, which in 1969 suffered an electrical failure while diving, causing it to point nearly vertically down and almost approach crushing depth. During the crew's efforts to regain control, the submarine eventually shot up nose up, nearly completely out of the water.