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TIL the movie with the greatest discrepancy between Rotten Tomatoes’ critics rating and audience rating is “Boondock Saints,” with a difference of 76 points. It received 17% and 93%, respectively.

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R5NLa TIL - Henry Ford's chief strikebreaker/union buster, Harry Bennett, was immediately fired after Ford's retirement in 1945. Bennett drew a gun on Jack Bugas who delivered the news. Bugas, a former FBI agent, then took out his own gun and threatened to shoot Bennett in the heart.
M7ovV TIL the CEO of AMD (Lisa Su) is the cousin of Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder (Jensen Huang).
VAmZ TIL in 1914, to save money on train fare, May Pierstorff’s parents paid the 53¢ postage, and mailed the 5-year old to her grandparents for a visit. She rode the whole way in the mail car, and was delivered to her grandparents’ house by the mail clerk on duty.
9gaQ TIL “Kuru” was a real disease cannibals could catch if they at the brains of other human beings. It would form holes in their brains and cause them to laugh uncontrollably.
mxp5E TIL that Oville Wright, who co-invented the airplane, lived til 1948. So he made the first working airplane in 1903 and say Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier just 43 years later.