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TIL in 2011 a British restaurant started charging customers $5 for bringing a baby "because the infants take up space in the restaurant, even if they aren't eating"

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ADZLB TIL actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a noblewoman by marriage to Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest who is a Lord by birthright
vPpnR TIL Oliver Stone was working on a movie called 'Company Man' about the Iran-Contra scandal, starring Paul Newman and timed to be released right before the 1988 presidential election. When producers wouldn't guarantee the release date, Stone halted the project to make 'Talk Radio' instead.
0wl85 TIL that the Judge Rotenberg Center, a SPED (Special-needs Education) School in Massachusetts, has been, and still is, using electroshock devices and other violent means to “discipline” misbehaving students.
lo6V1 TIL about John C. Beale, a man who pretended to be a CIA secret agent, flew around the world on first-class flights, stayed in high-end hotels and cost the taxpayers almost US$900,000.
EBVd TIL the world’s largest grocery wholesale company is based in a nondescript office in Keene, New Hampshire. The company uses unmarked trucks and the owner hasn’t given an interview in over a decade.