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TIL Billy Bob Thornton did get drunk for scenes in Bad Santa. In the escalator fall scene Thornton actually passed out after drinking 3 glasses of red wine for breakfast followed by vodkas and cranberry juice then a few Bud Lights.

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XEPOD TIL of an anxiety disorder called Agoraphobia which causes you to have extreme fear of places. If it’s severe enough, you may not even be able to leave your home. You may not be able to visit with family and friends, go to school or work, run errands, or take part in other normal daily activities.
1aVZO TIL That the tetanus is not directly related to rust, it's caused by a soil bacterium. Iron just gets usually rusty after spending some time in the soil, and the rust is a nice place for the bacterium to live in.
wLWKo TIL that the guava fruit has the highest protein content of any fruit with 2.55g per 100g.
yQjKa TIL lawmakers in South Carolina wanted to raise a monument to honor black Confederate troops from South Carolina without knowing that there weren't any black Confederate soldiers in South Carolina.
nexmr TIL the greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia who gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.