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TIL that She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is the third most expensive TV show ever produced

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X0Okj TIL the Sound of Music is based on a real Trapp family, and they have a lodge in Vermont
wL1D7 TIL that a the Netherlands supposedly declared war on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwestern coast of Cornwall, England) in 1651, and essentially forgot about it until a treaty was signed 335 years later, in 1986. Not a single shot was ever fired.
M7mmK TIL about Dock Ellis, a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who apparently pitched a no hitter while high on LSD
X89E TIL Iceland’s navy took on the UK, Germany and Belgium in three “Cod Wars”, and won all three times with only one death
kJ4V7 TIL Columbus Day was founded as a way to celebrate Italian-Americans at a time when they were treated like second hand citizens