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TIL Mel Gibson couldn’t get any studio to fund ‘Passion of the Christ’. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to fund it by himself, an action which analysts labelled as “idiotic”. He spent $30M on the film & went on to make over $475M since he didn't have to split the profits

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9YWeB TIL in 1889, President Harrison signed identical documents that created North and South Dakota as states. No one knows which state was the 39th or the 40th to enter the Union because Harrison signed the documents blind and declared, “They were born together; they are one and I will make them twins."
xEP1 TIL there is a version of the pilot episode of “Archer” where he is entirely replaced by a velociraptor
xVDpk TIL The first full size nuclear reactor was not for power, but to convert Uranium to Plutonium because Uranium is so difficult to work with. It simplified production from 22,000 workers to only a few dozen.
AnOB TIL India has the largest government midday meal program in the world, feeding 120 million students per day for free.
WkRJB A newly funded concept envisions a kilometer-wide radio telescope built inside a crater on the far side of the Moon.