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TIL the movie Idiocracy (2006) had a budget of $2.4 million and only made $500k at the box office. “Beset by a low budget and no advertising support from 20th Century Fox, Idiocracy almost didn’t happen at all. The fact that it exists is a miracle.”

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JYvrv TIL DC Comic's Watchmen was originally intended to use existing heroes from a company DC had just purchased. DC liked the proposal for the Watchmen but didn't want their new characters killed or made into villains. The Watchmen creative team reworked the Charlton heroes into similar substitutes.
awVX9 TIL that amethyst was considered one of the five most precious gemstones, alongside diamond, ruby, sapphire, and emerald. When large deposits were found in Brazil, the value of amethyst plummeted, and today it is considered only semiprecious.
VMymk TIL Isabel Ingram was an American tutor to Wanrong, the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China. From age 20, she lived in the Forbidden City, where she taught Wanrong the speech, modes, and manners of the West. The two also tried to look like one another and traded clothes
j64lE TIL about Alan Magee, an American airman during WWII. In 1943, he was on a bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France, when his plane broke apart in mid-air and his parachute was torn. Magee blacked out from lack of oxygen and survived a 22,000-foot fall by crashing through a train station's glass roof.
yxYa TIL a teaspoon of matter taken from a neutron star would weigh around 10 billion tons, which is similar to the weight of an average earth mountain.