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TIL that the movie Swingers cost about $750K to make. $500K for music licensing and $250K for the actual movie itself

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mR9y TIL Willie Nelson smoked a joint on the rooftop of the White House as Secret Service looked on.
yQnbl TIL In 2013, Toronto surpassed Chicago as the fourth largest city in North America. Except for a brief rise in the 1990s, Chicago’s population has been steadily shrinking since the 1950s, when it was the nation’s second largest city
aBL9 TIL A Spanish judge has ruled that women can be charged more for driving lessons because “men were better drivers”
6EvN7 TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
Y7mM7 TIL that the Virgin Boy Egg is a dish with a longstanding tradition in Dongyang, China, in which a vendor boils an egg in the urine of young boys, preferably under the age of ten. They are routinely eaten and are "widely accepted as a time-honored tradition"