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TIL Quentin Tarantino Wanted Kurt Cobain as Pulp Fiction’s Lance the Jesus-esque drug dealer.

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Oydg TIL in Norse mythology, Loki tied one end of a rope to a goat and the other end around his testicles and began a game of tug of war
XAOR TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”
VM4dZ TIL in 1991, Escobar invited Maradona to play football with him in luxurious prison- La Catedral. It was followed up with a lavish party.
KWGB TIL of the “Petticoat duel”; in 1792, Lady Almeria Braddock challenged Mrs. Elphinstone to a duel in London’s Hyde Park over remarks the latter made about the former’s true age; they dueled with pistols, then with swords, until Mrs. E agreed to write Lady A an apology.
ZvWB TIL that a woman who died in 2009 had at least 1400 descendants (11 children, 150 grandchildren, 1000 great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren)