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TIL The Twilight Saga is a higher-grossing movie franchise than the DC Extended Universe

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OGggL Today I Learned -- A palliative care nurse asked dying people about their regrets and the most common regret was : "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me"
ANbln TIL a movie was banned in China for 2 decades because it featured serial killer and his dog, which he fed victim's remains to.
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nebDb TIL West Point has a tradition of celebrating the student who came in last in class rank but still graduated, called the Goat. Including having each cadet give the Goat money.
6NvY TIL that as a teenager Vlad the Impaler was a hostage of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, and learned Turkish during this time. Later, while fighting the Ottomans, Vlad would disguise himself as a Turk, infiltrate and destory a series of fortresses.