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TIL that the Los Angeles Union Station was Built on an Area that Used to be Old Chinatown

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VBmEQ TIL Babe Pig in the City was originally rated PG & featured a number of dark deleted scenes
YpdPZ TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
4XRkR TIL that our eyes and ears don’t tell us enough about the outside world, so our brain uses its expectations to ‘hallucinate’ reality.
pYxGG TIL the most expensive medieval English coin ever sold at auction is a 'Henry III gold penny' minted around 1257 that fetched £648K ($835K) in 2022. It's only the eighth known example out of the roughly 52,000 coins that were originally minted. It was found by an amateur metal detectorist in Hemyock
98gD TIL that there is an O/S written entirely in assembly. It’s called KolibriOS. It’s ISO takes up 4.95 MB and boots up completely in less than 3 seconds