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TIL that Clint Eastwood “wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his ‘Man with No Name’ Westerns”

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Q9JX TIL between 1995-2000, the chief of security of McDonald’s monopoly pieces passed all the most expensive pieces to employees. They netted over 26 million dollars.
78XVZ TIL there are over 700 dogs and 100 cats living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and Clear Future Fund’s Dogs of Chernobyl program looks after their wellbeing
gMgdD TIL that an 81 year old man called Giles Corey, accused of being a wizard in 1692, was the only man in American history to be subjected to death by pressing in an attempt to get him to submit to trial by jury. It is said that his response to the torture was to tell them to add 'more weight.'
p8e8Q Pain does not equal gain, and soreness does not mean you got a good workout. The good news? The reverse is also true.
Q5YM TIL that the term Gerrymandering comes from a literal Gerrymanderer - Elbridge Gerry, who drew the voting districts of Essex County, MA in such a way that a local paper compared it to a salamander, dubbing it the ‘Gerry-mander"