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TIL that “buttload” is an actual measurement - 126 gallons

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m58x TIL Alec Guinness (Obi-Wan) received 2.25% of the total profits Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope while Harrison Ford (Han Solo) only made .67% the profits and Mark Hamill (Luke) and Carrie Fisher (Leia) only took home .25% of profits.
r8kM TIL that in September 2016, ‘Tube Chat’ badges were offered to passengers on the London Underground. Wearing one of these badges would indicate to other commuters that you are happy to have a conversation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the concept was not well-received.
Ypn87 TIL a couple in the background of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ gets engaged, pregnant, their son graduates high school, then the husband passes away all in the same scene.
YEpv TIL that the red liquid in a rare steak isn’t blood. It is actually water and a protein called myoglobin.
p8BLN TIL that the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director at the time, refused to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia. It was only when a local state trooper watched the home of mobster Joe Barbara on a hunch, that he stumbled onto a meeting of around 100 members, confirming their existence.