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TIL that the CGI Empire State Building from Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” took 18 months to create. The real building only took 14 months.

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ZG4Q TIL there’s a boiling lake so hot that the centre has never been reached, and therefore the maximum depth and temperature are unknown.
Mb6W TIL There’s a Russian superstition that if there’s a fly in the room, you shouldn’t say anything that’s secret because flys are all spys for Baba Yaga (the witch that lives in the woods). Its an old pagan superstition from before the communist revolution.
VB584 TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut