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TIL in the short scene in Fight Club when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.

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ANp6g TIL some boys used to be castrated so as to keep their soprano voices due to not reaching sexual maturity. Their rib cages were also bigger allowing them more lung and vocal capacity. There is only one known recording of a castrato
5VVLD TIL that yaks are the Swiss-army knives of domesticated animals. They can be milked like a cow, ridden like a horse (including for playing polo), sheared for wool (super warm and soft) like sheep, eaten like a pig, pull carts like an ox, carry stuff like a donkey and their dung burns like wood
mNVp TIL police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
Oo7N4 TIL that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is under copyright. The speech will remain under copyright in the United States until 70 years after King's death, through 2038.
69l5J TIL Brad Pitt created a cashmere line with a friend after she had a dream about him telling a stylist he wanted more 'green and softness in his life'. He told her that he actually said that same thing to a stylist around the same time. The two took it as a sign from the Universe to start a company.