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TIL that when adjusted for monetary inflation, "Gone witth the Wind" is still the highest-grossing film in history.

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9w4Pm TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.
v1gWx TIL that Alfred Hitchcock was known to play elaborate pranks on his colleagues. One night he hosted a dinner party and dyed all the dishes blue because "there aren't enough blue foods."
DNEP TIL “Ghostbusters” and “Gremlins” both came out on the same day… 30 years ago today.
lbv7 TIL Japaneses invented a machine that un-censor japanese pornography.
9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.