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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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8eeoL TIL of Vancouver's "Dude Chilling" Park, a local name based on the sculpture "Reclining Figure" (which looks like a dude chilling). An artist erected a fake Parks Dept. sign reading "Dude Chilling Park", but the city took it down. After public outcry, it was replaced and got official approval.
JYGL8 TIL that in the boat-naming poll that eventually resulted in Boaty McBoatface, Spanish trolls attempted to name the boat Blas de Lezo, after a Spanish admiral who defeated and humiliated the British Royal Navy in 1741. The organizers removed the name after it gained traction.
Wkpoo TIL of Hannah Szenes, a Jewish parachutist dropped by the British into Yugoslavia during WWII to help rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz. Arrested, imprisoned and tortured, she refused to reveal details of her mission or her transmitter code. She was eventually executed.
J0l TIL that the original and proper term actually is ‘duck tape’, as it was made for use by US GIs in WWII, who named it duck tape for its waterproofing abilities
lOg1 TIL - That Mcdonald’s serves 75 hamburgers every second