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TIL that Kit Harrington arrived to his Game of Thrones audition with a black eye after getting into a fight at McDonald’s the night before

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4b6a TIL in 1962, LIFE magazine published an article about Lauri Rapala and his fishing lures. The cover featured recently deceased Marilyn Monroe and it became the magazine’s best selling issue. Consequently, Rapala received millions of orders and is today the leading lure manufacturer in the world.
0dgQM TIL: In the US they call Heath Robinson contraptions "Rube Goldberg machines"
E1mXP TIL: Lou Pearlman, manager of The Backstreet Boys, and N*SYNC, was running a ponzi scheme with money created by the bands, and shell corporations.
0wrn5 TIL the CIA had a mind control program. In 2018, declassified documents included a letter discussing work on six dogs made to run, turn and stop via remote control and brain implants.
nRoY TIL the Declaration of Independence refers to Native Americans as “the merciless Indian Savages”.