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TIL grocery bags on movies and TV are specially formulated to be quieter than regular bags

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VrD4 TIL in 2004, GirlsGoneWild founder Joe Francis was held at gunpoint in his home by a man who demanded $500,000 whilst videotaping him and making him say “I’m from Boys Gone Wild, and I like it up the ass.”
Q8Xk TIL that the Lord of the Rings novels were written as if they were translated to English, and the actual common tongue of the books is called Westron.
PYj7O TIL in 2008, Janet Barrett from the UK received a RSVP to a party invitation originally posted on 29 November 1919. It had taken 89 years to be delivered by the Royal Mail.
PYPMg TIL exactly 45 years ago (12/06/73), Nixon used his power under the 25th Amendment to appoint Ford as his new vice president the United States. To date, Ford remains the only person to assume the roles of both President and Vice President without having been elected by the electoral college.
DQn5D TIL in 1927, actress Mae West spent 10 days in jail because of the explicit nature of her stage play "Sex".