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TIL that Billy Bob Thornton was really (really!) drunk for the Bad Santa mall scene

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5V98r TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets directly into the ground and passed out. Alcohol would be banned from shooting events shortly after.
7QPO TIL that being a “cynic” originally meant you thought the purpose of life was to live virtuously in agreement with Nature, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame; living a simple life free from all possessions.
AjG7 TIL In Stringtown, Oklahoma, population 400, 76 percent of the town’s 2013 budget came from traffic tickets. After a state investigation into excessive speed trapping the town’s police department was disbanded.
nenaW TIL: An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics are sold in the United States for use in meat production.
J11xm TIL Koalas sleep 20 hours or more to slow down their metabolism rate and conserve their body energy