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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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66AW TIL that Microsoft has a patent that allows the Kinect (and other video devices) to count the number of people in the room and stop playback if there are too many viewers. (Link to patent.)
86ob TIL Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist, survived being hit directly in the face by a particle accelerator beam.
R5en7 TIL the reputation of pigeons as "dirty" is fairly recent. The abundance of food in postwar North America attracted pigeons to cities, where their large numbers led to a large amount of defecation. Before that, juvenile pigeon meat, known as "squab", was a popular food source throughout the world.
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