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TIL In 1987, a guy bought a lifetime unlimited first class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. He flew over 10,000 flights costing the company $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.

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OVe1 TIL Christopher Lee was the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien
kOOgE TIL Universal Studios bought the E.T. script for $1 million from Columbia Pictures (which held it from Spielberg after putting it in a "turnaround") in exchange for the latter to retain 5% of the film's net profits. Columbia stated it made more money from E.T. than it did any of its films in 1982.
jwGN TIL during the Nanking Massacre, it is estimated Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 women. They were often killed after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were cut open to allow them to be raped.
ZEZR TIL “Sonder” refers to the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, routines, worries and inherited craziness in which you might appear as an extra sipping coffee in the background or as a lighted window at dusk.
OGbA1 TIL in 1971, future Studio Ghibli cofounders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata wanted to create a feature-length anime adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. They even travelled to Sweden to location scout and meet with the book’s author.