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9wgkX TIL that "Return of the Jedi" made over $475 million, but was reported as unprofitable due to Hollywood accounting
Br97L TIL Coca-Cola did not invent the modern image of the red and white clothed Santa Claus through their famous campaigns of the 1930's. His modern look goes back as far as the 1880's through an illustrator named Thomas Nast.
ANZjB TIL the Dutch word for an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman, is a reference to one specific woman.
e0e1D TIL that the person who played 8-year-old Grinch in The Grinch (2000) was actually an 18 year old with dwarfism and passed away two years after the release of the film
JY9R4 TIL that men receive 63% longer jail sentences on average than women do and women are twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted for the same crime.