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TIL New Line Cinema gambled their entire company on the success of the Lord of The Rings franchise, by committing to all three films for > $270M up front.

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LlLp TIL NASA plans to lasso an asteroid and drag it to the moon for astronauts to walk on.
m1Kox TIL that the Kansas City Chiefs had 6 Pro-Bowlers in 2012. Their record that season was 2-14.
RO09 TIL that a group of ecologists, chefs, and diners are campaigning to eat lionfish, a fish decimating the native ecosystems and thought to be responsible for a drop in the biomass of native reef fish species by an average of 65 percent
rYXx TIL there is a light bulb in California that hasn’t burned out for over 100 years.
16a1r TIL the unique “sizzling” bass sound of the iconic TR-808, which is now used in almost all pop music, is made by a specific set of rejected transistors. Because they were a mistake, the transistors, and therefore the 808 itself, cannot be reproduced.