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TIL the creator of My Pillow was a crack addict while creating the company

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eJdD TIL about Norman Borlaug who was an American agronomist and humanitarian, Borlaug was often called “the father of the Green Revolution” and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
0A8v TIL that the Devil in “Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny” was played by Dave Grohl.
P1gDO TIL about the Slam Dunk (as in the name of the manga) scholarship, a program that lets Japanese students study in the US to become a professional basketball player
78o8L TIL Harry Connick Jr is 56 but still uses a suffix professionally as his father is still alive at 97. Harry Connick Sr was the district attorney for Orleans Parish in Louisiana for 30 years before retiring 20 years ago.
4M16 TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.”