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TIL It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode

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DVJP TIL that the correct plural for octopus is either ‘octopuses’ or 'octopodes’, NOT 'octopi’. Octopus is derived from Greek, not Latin.
awaxM TIL a man built the world's largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
oB0L8 TIL that almost all American drivers describe their driving skills as "above average"
aRob TIL that the last descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died as a spoken language by the 1600s. It has survived until today as the language of religious services of Egypt’s 10% Christian minority-the Copts. The alphabet uses Greek letters plus extra letters deriving from hieroglyphics
V98Q TIL that the killer of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1989 and went missing for 26 years, was actually questioned by the FBI less than two months after the boy’s abduction, but was let go. In 2016, he confessed to the killing – but he will not be charged.