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TIL Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. “Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting as a way of thanking him for his work.”

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ep7gk TIL that before haunted houses, 16th-century elites hosted “black or hell banquets.” Dating to ancient Rome, Emperor Domitian hosted a banquet where guests were assigned a seat with a personalized gravestone. The menu consisted of food usually offered as sacrifices for the departed.
Wk9YB TIL that to this day, the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony has not been found
E1l0p TIL about the USS Mayflower - the only ship to serve in the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Israeli Navy.
j5Kj TIL: Canada has one fifth of the world’s freshwater.
LklAV TIL "Prime minister" was originally used as an unofficial derogatory term for an MP who had improperly accumulated too much power in parliament.