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TIL since it was first released in 1981, The Gods Must Be Crazy has grossed over $60,000,000 worldwide and cost $5,000,000 to make. The lead actor N!xau was paid less than $2000 for his role.

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P1paL TIL the world's oldest known message in a bottle was 132 years old, written in German and found in 2018 on an Australian beach, with the message: ‘Could the finder please plot the coordinates it was found, and the date it was found, and send it back.’
8aZWG TIL about the 71 teenage students, who were stationed to protect a South Korean HQ, despite having no experience in war or even firing a gun. The SK army didn’t think the NK army would attack that HQ, but they did. Those students, still in their school uniforms, held back the NK army for 11 hours.
ADElB TIL Canadians in WW1 regularly executed prisoners and exploited truces. "[He] described the practice of lobbing tins of corned beef into a neighbouring German trench. When the Canadians started hearing happy shouts of “More! Give us more!” they then let loose with an armload of grenades."
RAGj TIL the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube didn’t realize he’d built a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and tried to restore it
J1DnQ TIL Mild bell peppers didn't exist before the 1920s