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TIL the towns from “Ghost Whisperer”, “Gremlins”, “Bruce Almighty”, “Back To The Future”, “Falling Skies”, and the first episode of “The Twilight Zone” (and many more) are all the same set, which is known as “Courthouse Square”

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9xQM TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks
4kbB5 TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.
oRAQW TIL, in Norse mythology the “corpse witch” Hela is actually Loki’s daughter
65xW TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents
8nga TIL that the ‘Big Mac Index’ is an economic tool published annually by The Economist to measure the purchasing power parity between two currencies. It compares the cost of Big Macs world-wide to determine whether currencies are over-valued or under-valued.