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TIL: In europe they have “Social Supermarkets” that allow the poor to buy discarded goods from normal supermarkets at very cheap prices.

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x6eX0 TIL CIA allegedly involved in Attempted assassination of Bob Marley, shot twice in 1976.
NGXN TIL Johnny Depp adopted the one-eyed horse that played Ichabod Crane’s steed, Gunpowder, in Sleepy Hollow to save him from being put down.
64d8 TIL that Leonardio DiCaprio used “the drunkest man in the world” video from YouTube as his inspiration for the scene in “Wolf of Wall Street” where he’s crawling to his car after the quaaludes send him into the “cerebral palsy phase”.
l7MO1 TIL that in every U.S. state, whoever presses the button on the slot machine wins the wager, which is why in 2017, a man who had his female friend push the slot machine button for good luck did not win anything but she won $100,000.
6EOVm TIL that an Elmo cameo was written for the 2011 Muppets film but was stopped by Children's TV Workshop lawyers. Ironically, the scene featured the Muppets attempting to recruit Elmo but getting stopped by his lawyers.