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TIL the State of Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.

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XmZj TIL when you get blackout drunk you don’t actually forget anything. Your brain wasn’t “recording” in the first place.
b9jra TIL the epic historical film, Quo Vadis (1951), grossed $21 million at the box office in 1951, which is $210,000,000 today. It used 32,000 costumes and over 30,000 extras appeared. Its success is credited with saving "MGM" from bankruptcy. It was filmed at Benito Mussolini's film studio in Rome.
QdDL TIL the derelict Land of Oz Theme Park has been (almost) abandoned since 1980 - it gets cleaned up and opens one weekend in October each year for Halloween
6EVJQ TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
xVXGB TIL Pollution from 1 container ship = 50 million cars. 15 ships = total global car emissions