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TIL that Gary Busey once got into a fistfight when asked to perform a scene set in Heaven, because it didn’t match his recollection of the afterlife he experienced during a near-death experience.

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p81oQ TIL of the Greek genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish National Movement in Anatolia (1914-1922) resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks.
YWrd TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and at social events he would share graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his dinner guests shun meat.
XE5lP TIL Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” (later covered by Whitney Houston, and one of the best selling singles of all time) on the same night
Zp0Pa TIL of Harada Sanosuke, an Edo period Samurai who was once ridiculed for not knowing how to properly commit seppuku. To prove his critic wrong, he drew his sword and attempted seppuku on the spot, but ended up surviving as the wound was too shallow.
5YOpQ TIL about the “Magic 8”. Before 1491, corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao weren’t found anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.