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TIL Hulk Hogan claimed in his autobiography that he once wrestled 400 days in a year because of his frequent trips back and forth from the USA and Japan

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YppP7 TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.
14RD TIL that 2015, 96 million black polyethylene balls were dropped into a reservoir in Sylmar, California, to stop evaporation of 300 million gallons of water per year
Z8eeQ TIL of Horace Fletcher, "the Great Masticator", who argued that food should be chewed to a liquid before swallowing. He claimed great health benefits from this, including beating college athletes in strength and endurance at the age of 58
DkLP TIL there’s a penguin in Japan that wears a penguin backpack and goes into the market to eat fish
1xmW TIL in 1998 director Guillermo del Toro’s father was kidnapped and held for ransom for $1 million by Mexican bandits. Guillermo del Toro had recently invested most of his funds in the film Mimic. Good friend James Cameron gave del Toro the money, and his dad was released 72 days later.