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TIL The Walking Dead has a 2.8 million dollar budget. Per episode.

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6ERNW TIL that that the iconic head character of Nintendo, Mario, was name after Mario Segale. A man who's kindness allowed a Nintendo warehouse to get back on its feet. Thereby going on to create the red and blue character we all know and love!
pY7re TIL The founder of France's criminal investigative agency, Eugène François Vidocq, was an escaped convict. Vidocq's superiors would repeatedly receive messages from jails demanding Vidocq's arrest, they were ignored and ultimately Vidocq received a pardon from King Louis XVIII.
p8Anp TIL Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights (“you have the right to remain silent...”). Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent.
DQ1Ee TIL that in 1965, the painter Roman Opałka had the idea of representing the passing of time by painting numbers: he painted a 1, then a 2, then a 3, etc, and continued for the rest of his life. The last number he painted before he died in 2011 was 5607249.
7PMO TIL that Randall Munroe, the artist of xkcd, was responsible for reddit’s comment sorting algorithm.