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TIL You can bake cookies, brownies, etc on a waffle iron

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EgRxw TIL actor Brad Pitt founded the "Make It Right Foundation" after hurricane Katrina, which rebuilt 109 homes in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. However, rot, mold, electrical fires, and gas leaks followed, leading to lawsuits over the poorly built structures. As of 2022, only 6 homes remained.
woX61 TIL the car coordinator of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood managed to locate the exact 1959 Ford driven by the Manson Family, but a replica was used instead because the idea of having the real Manson car was considered too creepy.
6DeZ TIL in 1999 a guy bought 12,150 servings of pudding ($3,140) and in return earned 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles.
xV5Vw TIL: In 2010, Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay as his address. When he tried to tell them that Fort Gay actually exists in West Virginia, it took an appeal from the town’s mayor for it to be corrected.
LQY19 TIL that in his 2010 autobiography, Keith Richards admitted that Otis Redding’s rendition of “Satisfaction” was closer to Richards’ original conception for the song than The Rolling Stones’ version. Keith said: “Otis got it right. Our version was a demo for [Otis’s version.]”