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VMwo0 TIL when Ben and Jerry's started giving its milky waste water to a local pig farmer in 1985, the farmer reported that his pigs loved every flavour except for Mint Oreo.
Lkd8P TIL that Werner Herzog claimed he would eat his own shoes if Errol Morris would ever complete the movie "Gates of Heaven". When he actually did, Herzog followed his own claim which is documented as the movie "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe"
N5b6 TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”.
VMRA4 TIL about Inky the Octopus's great escape from New Zealand's National Aquarium. One night he squished through a hole in the tank, slid across the floor and squeezed through a pipe into the ocean.
xDd1 TIL That one of the World’s largest retailers gives out free fruit to children in all UK stores to eat whilst their parents do the shopping, after a member of checkout staff suggested it in her store.