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TIL: It costs about 5 cents to make 4 cents.

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mxDRx TIL Steven Seagal claimed to be immune to chokeholds. To prove it, he had a stuntman put him in a hold. Seagal promptly lost consciousness and shit himself.
1Db8 TIL after the first edit of Star Wars came back as clunky and lackluster, Lucas spliced together a cut of World War II dogfights. The space battle in the final film is a frame for frame re-enactment of this. (1h41s)
VB6D TIL Leonardo DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia’s tiger summit, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a “muzhik” or “real man”
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QxVM TIL that Burger King had a promotion where if you unfriend 10 people on Facebook you get a free whopper.