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TIL Ayn Rand's pro-free market novel Atlas Shrugged was adapted into a three part film series in the 2010s. After the first two movies bombed, the producers resorted to Kickstarter to fund the third film.

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8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”
a4OZ TIL that Uruguays president is a boss. He gave up the presidential palace to turn it into a homeless shelter. Lives in a one bedroom farm house. Gives 90% of his salary to charities. He spent 10 years as a PoW. Helped legalized abortion, marijuana, and same-sex marriage.
LQ0mP TIL: At 13, Waris Dirie fled her family in the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man. She made it to London and worked at Mcdonald's when she agreed to model for a photographer. She became a supermodel, appeared in a Bond movie & became a world-famous voice against FGM.
kJLgd TIL that the singer of “Be Prepared” from The Lion King is in dispute. While credited to Jeremy Irons, Jim Cummings (voice of Ed the Hyena) has variously claimed that he sang all or part of the song. Some have noted a slight shift in the vocals of the final verse.
E18OX TIL Schools of Clownfish have a hierarchy with a female at the top. When the top female dies, the most dominant male changes sex (from male to female and takes her place.