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TIL that while Danny Trejo was filming his cameo in “The Muppets: Most Wanted!” his mother passed. The cast all offered their sympathy but he shrugged it off because of his ‘tough guy’ persona. It wasn’t until Steve Whitmire apologized in character as Kermit the Frog that Trejo broke down crying.

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KOB8a TIL Henry Ford anti-semitic propaganda was likely the most sustained printed attacks on Jews the world had ever seen at his time -“I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” Hitler told the News.
0dAKM TIL from WTC debris, the structural steel was bought by scrap metal industry and sold to Chinese and Indian second hand metal markets. Several buildings were built with Twin Tower steel across Indian cities, including a college and a trade centre.
l7oG1 TIL that overuse of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can cause spinal cord injury by inactivating vitamin B12. Numbness, weakness, and even sexual dysfunction are common symptoms. Taking B12 preventatively before nitrous use is ineffective as no matter how much B12 is present, it is all ‘turned off’.
M7P9W TIL In 2020, the wine market was expected to be worth $418 billion with experts estimating that around 20% of all the wines sold around the world are counterfeit.
09mp TIL, in an effort show the importance of the company to the local economy, Geneva Steel paid their employee bonuses using 2$ bills, which then started showing up in local businesses.