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TIL Game of Thrones has brought more than $100 million to Northern Ireland’s economy

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o19o TIL that the original Rocky movie was shot in only 28 days, on a budget of 1 million dollars. It is also has one of the highest profit margins of all time, at 225:1.
E1y5V TIL that a semi truck is estimated to cause 9,600 times the damage to roads as a passenger vehicle
LW4Q TIL there is a modern Australian interpretation of Macbeth where the title character is a high ranking gang member in Melbourne’s underworld who tries to kill his crime boss. The prophetic vision shown to Macbeth by the three witches is depicted as a drug induced trip at a night club.
mj4R TIL in 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.
yQbXM TIL an estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action, and that later on Nazis tried to suppress the Jewish contribution and even tried to blame them for Germany's defeat