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TIL the pilot episode of Star Trek Voyager was one of the most expensive television episodes ever produced, costing $23 million

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ne00B TIL about Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was kept captive for 19 yrs by her mother, Dee Dee, who faked medical conditions that her daughter had in order for her to be seen as a caregiver. Dee Dee is a classic Munchausen syndrome by proxy. After Gypsy had Dee Dee killed, she was sentenced 10yrs in prison
5AQn TIL: In late 90s Will Smith told Eminem, “You’ll either be the biggest flop, or the biggest thing we’ve ever seen”.
jNZjj TIL that gaslighting is the act of deliberately driving someone crazy by altering the environment and denying their sense of reality
kJ0o5 TIL in 1925, wealthy SF businessman Herbert Fleishhacker built what was then the largest swimming pool in the US. Open to the public, it measured 150 x 1000 feet, held 6.5 million gallons, and could hold 10k people. The pool was filled with filtered seawater and heated to 72°. It closed in 1971.
N9KP TIL that cats have contributed to the extinction of 32 species