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TIL GTA V, the highest grossing video game of all time, has made 6 billion dollars whereas Avatar, the highest grossing movie, has made only 2.7 billion dollars

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ANJa TIL that most Muslims in Arab nations do not believe Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks.
XEZGQ TIL Boris Yeltsin made a unplanned stop at a grocery store in Texas after visiting the Johnson Space Center. He was so amazed by what they had in the store compared to the USSR, it lead him to leave the Communist party and tried make massive economic reform in Russia
J1LKk TIL that prior to the 25th Amendment, there was no mechanism in the United States Constitution for filling vice presidential vacancies. The US has been without a vice president on 16 occasions for a cumulative 37 years.
m1l8M TIL of Alessandro Moreschi, the only castrato singer to make a solo recording (in 1902 - Samples are on the Wiki-Page)
0ymp TIL After the sinking of the RMS Titanic (1500 lives claimed), a federal law was passed requiring a complete set of lifeboats. The added weight of the new lifeboats caused an already top heavy SS Eastman to rollover killing 844 people while still docked in the Chicago River.