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TIL that the 1997 film Titanic, adjusted for inflation, still cost more to make than the actual ship itself in 1909.

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16DJV TIL During negotiations for the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins complained to Winston Churchill about the British putting a price on his head. Churchill defused the situation by joking that he also once had a reward offered for his capture during the Boer War after he escaped a POW camp.
Ooakg TIL that there have been at least six instances of chimpanzees stealing and eating human babies.
oBew8 TIL that when George Washington died in 1799, the British Royal Navy was ordered to lower their flags to half mast. The London Morning Chronicle opined that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.
AD4X4 TIL that one of the co-founders of United fruit company (a.k.a Chiquita brand) began importing bananas to US to pay off a debt from building a railroad in Costa Rica. Bananas were originally planted along the railway to feed the workers.
J195k TIL more than a quarter of the world's captive-bred panda population are descendants of one male panda named Pan Pan