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TIL the CG Director of Silent Hill, single-handedly created all the game’s cutscenes. He was living at the office and using 150 computers to render after hours for 3 years straight
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TIL Statistically, an American is more likely to be struck by lightning than winning an Olympic medal.
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TIL Marvel only received a flat fee of $25,000 for the film Blade (1998) despite that it went on to make $131 million world wide.
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TIL that the shortest war in history lasted only 38 to 45 minutes. It was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896.
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TIL the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport has two graves embedded in runway 10 when the family refused to move them during a WWII expansion of then U.S. Army Air Corps Chatham Field
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TIL that when fugitive James Robert Ringrose was apprehended by the FBI in 1967, he presented the agents a Get Out of Jail Free card from Monopoly
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