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TIL The Mummy (1999) helped Universal studios gross over one billion dollars in home video sales

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Qo5k TIL that Southern sweet tea was originally used to show wealth, as tea, ice, and sugar were all very expensive at the time.
ANDra TIL there is an earthquake zone in southern Missouri, and there was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake there in the early 1800s. The nature of the bedrock there means quakes can shake an area 20x bigger than quakes in California. There is a 1 in 10 probability of another in the next 50 years
aP5y TIL that when bubbles are collapsed by sound waves it creates light and no one knows why. It’s called “Sonoluminescence”
VmOG TIL Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.
lon0B TIL butter sticks that are sold in the United States come in two distinct shapes (although containing the same amount of butter) depending to a large extent on whether it is being sold East or West of the Rocky Mountains.