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TIL Wal-Mart gets sued nearly 20 times a day, close to 5,000 lawsuits each year.

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64w8 TIL that the director of the movie Cannibal Holocaust was arrested for murder 10 days after the movie premier, as the courts did not understand how an impalement scene was done, and actually believed that an actress was murdered for the scene.
oBabo TIL Tsar Peter the Great had a fondness for anatomy and often attended medical dissections. So after having his mistress Mary Hamilton beheaded, he picked up the head, gave a lecture about its anatomy, kissed its lips, then dropped it to the ground. Peter also had his own son tortured to death.
wLe67 TIL Pistachios are expensive because the trees take up to 20 years to reach peak production, and are "biennial-bearing", meaning a light harvest every other year. The nuts used to be dyed red to hide stains caused by hand picking, most pistachios are now machine picked and dyeing is unnecessary.
awRKN TIL that the first movie to use the "pie in the face" gag was 1909's "Mr. Flip", in which the actor Ben Turpin gets hit with a pie after harassing a waitress.
lker TIL Foamy pee means there is protein in the urine and could be a sign of a serious kidney problem