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TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.

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1WYD TIL Sean Connery single handedly beat 4 men in a night club while Michael Caine held his coat.
e05EJ TIL the famous WW2 song (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover is false, because bluebirds are only native to the Americas
4Dy5 TIL that in the ancient Persian Empire, an idea was debated twice: sober and drunk. The idea first had to sound good in both states of mind before being considered a good idea
QJMeE TIL Codependency is characterized by sacrificing one’s personal needs in order to try to meet the needs of others and is associated with passivity and feelings of shame, low self-worth, or insecurity
M7yXm TIL The Space Shuttle was designed in the hopes that spacefaring would become cheap, reliable and everyday. Instead, maintaining the fleet took months of arduous technical work and instead of flying once a week, the shuttle made on average fewer than five flights a year