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TIL that Jeff Daniels only earned $50K for Dumb and Dumber compared to Jim Carrey’s $7Mil.

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JYWE1 TIL cars like the 1968 Pontiac GTO or 1971 Buick Riviera and 1992 Nissan Quest or 1995 Nissan Sentra were designed by the same man - Jerry Hirschberg, who also managed to release a hit single in 1959.
0wa7p TIL Beverly Hills in Australia was originally named Dumbleton. However, the local residents disliked that name, wanting something more glamorous, and in the 1930s decided to rename it Beverly Hills after the Californian home of numerous American movie stars.
woN8W TIL about the elite overproduction theory, where a sucessful society produces more percieved members of the elite than it can sustain, thus creating societal instability when an "alternative" elite bands together to take over power in what they see as their rightful places in society
PY1DO TIL if you threw a stone overboard above the Mariana Tench (6.8 mi deep) it would take an hour for it to hit the ocean floor.
GA11g TIL when the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1967, they had the name of the man who wore their mascot costume engraved on the cup.