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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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4Xmdw TIL that the English Crown, fearing the potential devaluation of gold, should the philosopher's stone actually be discovered, made penalties for alchemy very severe. In some cases the punishment for unsanctioned alchemy would include the public hanging of an offender on a gilded scaffold.
0dA95 TIL a man in Thailand embedded magnetic plates in his fingertips in order to cheat at Hi-Lo, an Asian variant game of dice.
JWg1 TIL that Vin Diesel has never met his father, and doesn’t know what race he is.
XE8j6 TIL that in 2019, an Australian pig stole beer cans, became drunk, then started a fight with a cow
dGJr TIL of Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a Gurkha soldier who single-handedly held his post against dozens of oncoming Taliban; after firing 250 machine gun rounds, 180 SA80 rounds, throwing 12 grenades and one claymore mine, 30 Taliban lay dead around him.