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TIL the earliest known Sherlock Holmes film is a parody where a thief steals from him

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XZB8 TIL in 1997 William Shatner agreed to become the spokesman for Priceline in exchange for some stock in the young company. This has earned him approximately $600 million as the stock soared.
OGyX4 TIL before she played elderly Rose in 1997 Best Picture winner Titanic, actress Gloria Stuart had been in one other film nominated for Best Picture... the 1934 film Here Comes the Navy
4Xaow TIL USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of WW II launched in 1943. Tang sank 33 ships totalling 116,454 tons and was sunk by own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait, 24 October 1944.
yVJRv TIL that the largest rainforest in Southern Africa was unknown to the outside world until it was discovered via Google Earth satellite images in 2011. It sits on top of a “410-foot sheer rock protuberance”, making it virtually untouched by humans until recent research trips.
P78V TIL that Germans killed an estimated 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians in concentration camps