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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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kwQ1 TIL there is a gigantic water vapor cloud in space that holds 140 Trillion times the water in earths oceans.
VMpB TIL A man named Dominic Owen Mallary always said he wanted Andrew W.K. to play during his funeral. So when he died in 2008 Andrew W.K. went to the wake, and played classical piano the entire time after paying his respects.
wLMQE TIL Clancy Brown, the voice of Mr. Krabs, was also The Kurgan in Highlander (1986).
JYgpm TIL the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat
dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.