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TIL that in 2007 Leonardo DiCaprio/Warner Bros. won a bidding war against Brad Pitt/Paramount Pictures for the rights to Jordan Belfort’s memoir The Wolf of Wall Street.

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wLwPP TIL: Obesity is associated with job absenteeism and lower productivity at work costing employers $506 per obese employee per year.
NXQlP TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.
9gxD TIL that Christian Atheism is a thing. Christian Atheists believe in the teachings of Christ but not that they were divinely inspired. They see Jesus as a humanitarian and philosopher rather than the son of God
78AgO TIL the Touhou Project series of bullet hell games is developed almost entirely by one person.