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TIL after viewing a rough cut of Romancing the Stone & expecting it to flop, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Robert Zemeckis as their film's director. But RtS was a surprise hit as the 6th-highest-grossing film of 1984 ($115 m) & allowed Zemeckis to make Back to the Future.

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WVEN TIL breast implants were first tested on dogs
wLOm6 TIL there is roughly 18 minutes of actual playing time in a 3-hour Major League Baseball (MLB) game.
e7NJ TIL bacteria outnumbers human cells by at least 10-1 in our bodies. Damn it feels good to be a superorganism.
90mm TIL a Popular German TV science show introduced “German-Only” seats on public buses and hired actor to act as racist. 80% of passengers confronted them, especially women and people who were old enough to witness the Third Reich stood up for the immigrants.
69Epm TIL More gold exists on paper than physically. Instead of real gold, paper substitutes for gold are sold through derivatives, futures, pooled accounts, exchange-traded funds, gold certificates, etc.