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TIL that Sigourney Weaver only earned $35,000 for Alien (1979) but got $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986)

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Arl TIL that the computer term booting up comes from the phrase “Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”. This is because, paradoxically, a computer cannot run without first loading software but some software must run before any software can be loaded.
y068 TIL that when the Dutch found the Dodo Birds, they named them “Dodaersen”, which translates to “Fat asses”.
XEWrD TIL that San Bernardino County, the biggest county in the contiguous United States, is bigger than the Netherlands, while Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska is bigger than Germany or Japan
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