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TIL An angry cast member of the ‘Titanic’ spiked the buffet with PCP and sent 80 people to the hospital.

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X05OQ TIL Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor
Gerj TIL A Woman in Oregon started a wildfire to give some work to her bored firefighter friends. Eventually, the fire, named as the Sunnyside Turnoff wildfire, spread to about 80 square miles — 51,000 acres — costing nearly $8 million to fight and took two months to bring under complete control.
QJGQe TIL of André Stander, a South African police officer who robbed almost 30 banks. Sometimes he’d carry out a crime during his lunch break and then return to the scene as an investigating officer. He was caught but escaped, formed a gang and robbed more banks. He was eventually killed in Florida.
v1Z88 TIL that Maya Rudolph's mom is the legendary Minnie Riperton, who sang the song Loving You. Minnie was referring to Maya at the end of the song. Minnie Riperton passed away at the age of 31 due to breast cancer.
jNYDN TIL that Elvis would sing inappropriate parodies of his songs including “suck me tender” and so on...