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TIL that the film Rocky was filmed in just 28 days for a budget of $960,000

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6gZ7 TIL a French explorer was marooned for 40 months on an island so remote that it takes a month to reach it today.
B6gr TIL A goat was once arrested in Nigeria after vigilantes claimed it was an armed robber who turned himself into a goat with black magic.
P1jXG TIL in 1985, the Canadian government banned the use of the name "Beef patty" by Jamaican patty vendors. The legal definition of "patty" at the time only described hamburger patties. After community outrage and mobilisation, vendors were allowed to call their products "Jamaican patties".
VPp8 TIL the earliest known depiction of Christ (1st-3rd century) is a graffitied scribble of him with a donkey’s head.
RAr4 TIL that in 2004 Coca Cola introduced their ‘Dasani’ water brand to the UK and it was discovered to be London mains water simply put through reverse osmosis. Somehow they also introduced a carcinogen called bromate into the water and the brand was shut down.