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TIL When adjusting for ticket price inflation Gone With The Wind is the all time biggest earning film in the US, grossing $1.6 billion domestically which is over twice as much as Avatar earned.

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M7k10 TIL about Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent regarded as the most damaging spy in U.S history. He made an average of $67,000 a year selling thousands of top secret documents to Russian intelligence for 22 years. The ex-KGB agent the FBI hired to catch him was paid $7 million.
PYBBL TIL of Father Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic Priest who ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted List after burning draft cards in protest of the Vietnam War
N7yZ8 TIL The Earl of Barrymore was challenged to a race by a butcher who bet he could win if given a short start and choice of track. As he was overweight, Barrymore eagerly agreed. The butcher chose Brighton's narrowest lane and though the Earl quickly caught him up, he was unable to pass.
PYQDw TIL Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
R7NQ6 TIL a sheepdog made a 240-mile journey home to his birthplace in Wales after escaping from his new home in Cumbria. He was sent to the Cumbrian farm to work but turned up on the doorstep of his original owners 12 days later, limping and a little thinner than before, but in otherwise good condition.