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TIL the movie Top Gun had a production budget of only 15 million dollars

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M5Za TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.
oRvYA TIL that urine comes from your blood, not directly from your digestive system.
1alJO TIL $30,000 in 1964 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $248,476.45 in 2019, a difference of $218,476.45 over 54 years. The 1964 inflation rate was 1.31%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, today's prices in 2019 are 728.25% higher than average prices in 1964
eLj5 TIL whale oil was such an effective lubricant that within 3 years of the 1972 US whale killing ban, yearly automotive transmission failures had climbed from under 1 million, to over 8 million.
X0wNk TIL of the ISSpresso, an espresso machine designed for use on the International Space Station.