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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is slowly straightening out

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M8D7 TIL Despite the generally positive reviews it got, the movie “ Idiocracy ” only brought in a mere $495,303 box office. It’s budget was about 4-6 times that.
oB7vE TIL Oscar nominee Shape of Water actor, Richard Jenkins got his start by being mistaken for the actor who auditioned before him. He overheard the guy before him, playing guitar, and how much they loved him. He realised what happened when the director asked him to play guitar, which he couldn’t do.
xVYoD TIL of NOMV (Not one more vet), an NGO created to raise awareness of the very high suicide rate in veterinarians. They are not professionally trained in counselling, yet they must do it on a daily basis.
ANKQg TIL about the Guinness share-trading fraud, a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers.
K7VR TIL Liberian militia leaders adopt crazy names such as General Butt Naked, General Mosquito, and his nemesis, General Mosquito Spray.