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TIL that because Hulk Hogan didn’t return the call from the endorsers to be the face of a new grill, they called the second person on the list, George Foreman, to be the face of what turned out to be a multi million dollar product.

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Rwm4 TIL 2 Chainz asked permission to sample Lehrer’s “The Old Dope Peddler”. Lehrer responded, “As sole copyright owner of ‘The Old Dope Peddler’, I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”
0ld1 TIL in Togo the natives call the castoff clothes they receive from America “Dead White Men Clothing” because a living person would not throw away anything this good.
XvJE TIL Brad Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming of “Fight Club” ended
oBMVL TIL there are bronze statues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, donated by their comics co-creator & university alum Peter Laird.
Ae7a TIL that Americans have worse teeth and fewer teeth than the British, stereotypes aside