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TIL Sam Worthington was broke and living in his car when he landed the lead role of Jake Sully in Avatar

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yEWp TIL that ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ was renamed 'The Man Worth Millions’ when airing on Israeli TV because of the association between “six million” and the Holocaust
AG8d TIL George Zimmer, the owner and founder of The Men’s Wearhouse, does not background check his employees. “I don’t trust the U.S. justice system to get it right,” says Zimmer, who is himself a recovering alcoholic; “I’d rather make my own decisions, and I believe in giving people a second chance.”
loJlV TIL the Filet-O-Fish was invented due to falling hamburger sales on Fridays resulting from Roman Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.
QyN6 TIL when the U.S. Post Office issued the first stamp honoring Elvis in 1993, stamp collectors mailed letters with these stamps to bad addresses to have them marked “Return to Sender”
wop5Y TIL that over 150 Japanese people contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (yes, THAT one) after being implanted with Lyodura, a brain patch illegally harvested from random cadavers