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TIL Bill Gates supports a financial transactions/Robin Hood tax

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xvXk TIL that Bill Murray had no scripted lines in the movie Caddyshack. He improvised everything. “With the Dalai Lama scene, they just sort of tossed me in there – there wasn’t much of anything. I just took it and ran away with it…Improvising about golf was easy for me.”
xV7L5 TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.
OpKa TIL that when you turn 100 in Japan, the Prime Minister sends you a silver cup to celebrate. So many people are turning 100 that they had to find a way to make cheaper cups.
OoWDX TIL Rick Wakeman started to wear capes onstage in order to hide the weird way he moved while operating footpedals, which a journalist said made him look like a demented spider. In some countries now, a show organiser will write into his contract that he must wear a cape
nEbb TIL that, statistically, women not taking birth control “kill” more fertilized zygotes than women taking birth control.