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TIL that William Shatner did all of the Priceline commercials for free, in exchange for stock in the company. He later made $600 millon dollars because of the deal.

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BMZe TIL A Party conference in Soviet Moscow ended with a tribute to Stalin. Nobody wanted to be the first to stop clapping. After 11 minutes of clapping a factory director stopped first and everybody else followed. That night he was sent to a gulag for 10 years.
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