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TIL we still don’t know who was sending anthrax-laden letters to senators and news media in 2001. Evidence against the top suspect is flimsy at best, and he died of apparent suicide in 2008.

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wLX5o TIL During filming of 'The Wizard of Oz', Judy Garland was constantly sexually harassed by the munchkins. The munchkins were paid so little to appear in the movie, they resorted to prostitution and used to have regular orgies in their hotel rooms.
e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.
ne8bW TIL that in 1981 10 million Poles (1/3rd of working people) joined the trade union Solidarność forcing communist goverment into democratic elections.
QrEk TIL that lead singer of DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh, also made the music to Rugrats, Rocket Power, The Sims 2, the Crash Bandicoot games, The Jak&Daxter series, Dumb and Dumber, The Lego Movie, The Life Aquatic, 21/22 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,and of course Halloween Town I & II
BgrNL TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.