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TIL The creator of Girls Gone Wild got the idea while working on compilations of violent videos for his Banned From Television series that was sold on infomercials. He is now living in Mexico to avoid numerous legal and abuse allegations.

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Y11r TIL When Walter Washington, the first mayor of Washington D.C. and first African-American mayor of major US city, sent his proposed budget to congress, Democratic Representative John L. McMillan sent a truckload of watermelons to his office in response.
bx6E TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
8aB88 TIL that in 2013 a woman sued her former employer after being fired for "gossping" in a gossip free workplace. Ironically, she had been complaining about her employers hiring/firing habits. She won
16xa8 TIL the writers of Total Recall tried adapting The Minority Report into its sequel, depicting Quaid as the head of an organization that uses mutants with precognition abilities to predict and stop crimes before they happen. It was reworked into a standalone film after their company’s bankruptcy.
VOXB TIL a fitness trainer intentionally gained over 70 pounds to better understand the plight of his overweight clients. Then lost it all again six months later.