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TIL that since the movie “Beasts of No Nation” was released online the same time it was theatrically, AMC, Regal, Carmike, and Cinemark completely boycotted the movie, effectively downgrading the movie to a limited-release movie with a box office return of $90,777.

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awbOo TIL: Bigfoot was created as a silly unplanned joke by Raymond L. Wallace in a Northern California logging camp in 1958. He used carved wooden feet to stomp the tracks of over-sized footprints. Even though his family have shed light on the prank lots of people still believe in Bigfoot's existence.
kkNB TIL a man tried to rob a convenience store armed with a knife from the store itself but gave up when the clerk thought he was purchasing it and scanned the item to tell him the price
rR4Z1 TIL that Greek singer, Nana Mouskouri (born in 1934), has released over 200 albums and singles in 10 different languages
WJ09 TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.
m1Z5R TIL the creator of the popular e-mail client Eudora named it after author Eudora Welty, for her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." If he had known that Eudora would become as popular as it did, he would not have presumed to name it after a (then) living author (she was pleased and amused)