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TIL: Internet joke ‘Boaty McBoatface’ was commemorated on a 50p coin

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DQXWj TIL executives of Dirty Dancing were convinced the movie would flop. They planned to have the film in theaters for one weekend and then to home video. The film went on to become the first movie to sell 1 million home videos.
YpdDZ TIL that old timers in Alaskans are known as “sourdoughs.” This is because Experienced miners and other settlers frequently carried a pouch of starter either around their neck or on a belt to keep it active in freezing Alaska winters.
lol95 TIL that the CIA was involved in the arrest of Nelson Mandela. They even believed him to be “the world’s most dangerous communist outside of the Soviet Union.”
OoMDe TIL that because of a treaty signed in 1795, the state of New York still gives 150 bushels of salt to the Onondaga people every spring
x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.