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TIL Space Invaders was such a huge success by 1982 it had grossed $14 billion adjusted for inflation, it was the highest-grossing entertainment product of all time

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epwjE TIL of the La Garita Caldera. A super volcano that had an eruption 5,000 times more energetic than the explosion of the largest bomb ever created by humans, the Tsar Bomba.
6941W TIL Acorns are good for pigs. Acorns are widely reported to lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol for pigs.
b6kEj TIL even people with pale skin can get vitiligo.
4kdO5 TIL: That the Nazi rallying call "Sieg Heil" was inspired by American football cheerleading techniques. Imported by his friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler was so impressed by the rousing qualities inherent at American sporting events, that he would seek to emulate the atmosphere at his rallies.
rREx1 TIL that until 2000 if a director disavowed a film his name was replaced with "Alan Smithee" in the credits. In 1998 Arthur Hiller made a film about an Alan Smithee who tries to disavow a movie, but can't because of his name. Hiller later disavowed it and his name was replaced with Alan Smithee.