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TIL that the game Monopoly was created with the goal of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants

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won16 TIL Ari Nagel aka "The Sperminator" has fathered over 100 children. He turns down no woman and doesn't charge for his services, although he pays child support for several of them. Three documentaries, including The Baby Daddy (2022) and Spermworld (2024), have featured his contributions.
6E7jW TIL that knives used in airport restaurant kitchens have to be tethered and accounted for so that those knives do not make it onto airplanes.
wLxWo TIL Alec Guinness warned James Dean about his car one week before the deadly crash
7lxb TIL Vehicles that have 5 or more cars behind them can be ticketed for not letting them pass in CA. Or even seen as the cause of an accident.
RKLa TIL Roy Orbison refused to allow In Dreams to be used in Blue Velvet. David Lynch used it anyway. After seeing the move Roy said “I really got to appreciate what David gave to the song, and what the song gave to the movie—how it achieved this otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension”