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TIL: A former professional sumo wrestler came forward in a tell all book with allegations of match rigging, drug use, sexcapades, tax evasion, and close ties to the mafia. Both he and his co-writer were found dead in the same hospital, hours apart on the same day.

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0wnyL TIL in 2008, McDonald's Japan paid 1,000 people to wait in line for the release of the Quarter Pounder in Osaka. People were paid $10 an hour to do this. 15,000 people gathered at the restaurant due to the fake crowd which caused people to accuse the company of trickery.
78p9x TIL Rod Serling originally wrote an episode about Emmett Till but it was rejected and so he turned to science fiction, instead, to talk about social issues, creating The Twilight Zone.
gr5lW TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
oZYY TIL That the US Navy trialled a form of active camouflage called Yehudi lights on torpedo bombers during WWII
BgMmD TIL that from ~1927, the US based "Nutex Company" sold 'Radium-Nutex' condoms. The product was seized and destroyed on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission in 1940 for false claims of effectiveness. They didn't contain any radium.