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TIL The Deadpool videogame cost more to make than Deadpool the movie - 100 Mn to 60Mn

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v1mrr TIL eight grizzly bear/polar bear hybrids have been confirmed in the wild, all descending from the same female polar bear.
5K1Q TIL Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative portrayal of keeping fish in aquariums, the use of clownfish prompted The demand for aquariums to triple. Demand was met by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild which devastated Clownfish Populations.
Y76Kd TIL Orville Wright's final flight was in a plane whose wingspan exceeded the length of his original flight.
R7BY6 TIL the US Gemini space capsule had to be redesigned because 14 of the 16 astronauts didn't fit in it. The original design relied so heavily on input from Mercury astronaut 'Gus' Grissom, who was 5' 6", that it was nicknamed the "Gusmobile."
KYd7B TIL that 2 people took 150 elementary children and teachers hostage in Cokeville, Wyoming. The bomb was accidentally detonated in a room full of kids and only the 2 psychopaths died.