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TIL that The Asylum, distributor of Sharknado and mockbusters such as Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, and Sunday School Musical, has never lost money on a film.

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VBK0k TIL Alaska’s Chirikof Island is home to around 700–800 feral cattle that were descended from the animals of the early Russian settlers and missionaries of coastal Alaska
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
RZQ6 TIL in 1915 a group of 112 Belgian prisoners asked the German commandant permission to organize a bike race. Under strict rules and heavy oversight, the racers escaped from Belgium simply by continuing after they crossed the finish line.
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