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TIL the average lifetime cost of raising a dog is $23,410

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X0m9Q TIL Todd Field, the writer and director for films such as "In the Bedroom" and "Tar", is also the co-creator of the gum "Big League Chew"
M7DdW TIL: The Movie Chicago (2002) is based on the Musical Chicago (1975), which is based on the Play Chicago (1926), which is inspired by the real events of two women in prison for murder in 1924. They really both reached for the gun.
e0ZvD TIL that India and Pakistan used to be a single country during the British rule, and their partition led to upto 2 million Hindu and Muslim deaths, and migration of 14 million people.
NX5oN TIL “Every year, tourists who come to the province of León at this time are surprised to read signs in the bars encouraging the killing of Jews. You don't have to worry, it's normal.”
8eL7b TIL "Dancing Plagues" occasionally broke out in the Middle Ages, where people could/would not stop dancing, occasionally even dying of exhaustion