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TIL that before toilet paper was widely available, it was common to use pages from the Sears catalog.

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gVeA TIL that actor Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter of praise to Bryan Cranston, telling him that his “performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.”
6Lm8 TIL A woman hired A hitman to kill a family in order to obtain a block of cocaine she had seen, but it later turned out to be a block of fancy cheese.
WGaN TIL that there is a mushroom that is safe to eat but can kill you if you drink alcohol afterwards.
yRVv TIL that producers feared Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow would kill the Pirates of the Caribbean, with the head of Disney Studios exclaiming “Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!”
6EGKm TIL due to lash back from a Far Side cartoon where a female chimp finds a human hair on the male she is grooming and says, “Conducting a little ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”, Gary Larson now donates all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon to The Jane Goodall Institute.