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TIL a man spend $40,000 buying out two IMAX theaters to prove ex-girlfriend wrong. “His ex-girlfriend dumped him seven years ago because he couldn’t afford two movie tickets for a date”.

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ZvLv TIL Shakespeare’s plays were so popular that pirated copies were made. Reporters would attend a performance and quickly write down the play’s entire text in shorthand as it was spoken. The pirated copies often had errors due to the reporters making mistakes while writing.
xVaV7 TIL the Bohemian Rhapsody video took only four hours to film. The band arrived to the studio at 7.30 in the morning and by 11.30 they were finished and were relaxing in a local pub. The entire thing cost $2025.
gM8OL TIL life expectancy in the US has declined for two years in a row. The last time it fell two years in a row was 1962-63.
PYOyJ TIL the author of the first Macintosh compression program (StuffIt, 1987) wrote it while a student in US high school, and royalty checks paid for his MIT tuition
xay1 TIL that Mike Tyson’s great passion in life is raising pigeons. He actually got in his first fight protecting one.