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TIL Walgreens used to own a 24-hour restaurant chain to compete with Denny's and Big Boy

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BrAmr TIL that when Willem Dafoe flew to the Philippines in 1986 to film 'Platoon', his plane got stuck and he eventually ended up joining the EDSA People Power Revolution, a nonviolent revolution that officially ousted Ferdinand Marcos, its former dictator.
Vk18 TIL There’s a Japanese anime/manga where Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha are roommates on vacation in Tokyo.
xBg0 TIL That a blind mom was told that her baby had died during birth. Doctors gave the child, who was very much alive, to a new family.
VZZZ TIL that the reason Top 40 has specifically forty singles is because standard jukebox machines held 40 songs at that time.
KNJR TIL In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, the scene where Jack was dancing and yelling “I’ve got a jar of dirt.” was not scripted. All of the cast’s reactions are actually real.