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TIL: That Gas Prices in Venezuela haven’t changed since 1996 at $0.015 per Liter

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VBW7p TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.
apXJ TIL more unfortunate facts about Detroit. 1/3 of Detroit is either vacant or derelict, 47% of the residents are functionally illiterate, less than half of residents over 16 are employed, and 40% of the street lights do not work.
Ze7v TIL there is a town called Okay, OK
PYMyZ TIL that NASA engineers had issues with the honey comb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.
Oo9v7 TIL radiological technologist Paul Bateson inspired William Friedkin to include a medical procedure in The Exorcist which Bateson performed in the film. Bateson, active in the gay leather scene, later committed a murder and was linked to a series of murders, inspiring Friedkin to make Cruising