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TIL Movie theatre popcorn is sold at a 1275% markup

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rMy0 TIL In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
wQ87 TIL the new Disney’s film “Moana” has been called “Oceania” in Italy presumably to avoid confusion with an Italian porn star of the same name, Moana Pozzi
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