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TIL Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who is worth around $840 million lives in a trailer in Las Vegas with a pet Alpaca

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x6B50 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
9YXo6 TIL that in 1973, the USSR missed out on the 1974World Cup for refusing to play in a Chilean stadium that had been used to detain, torture, and execute political dissidents.
kJ1v1 TIL that our solar system is not a solar system. It's a planetary system NAMED the solar system. The name comes from our sun.
DmMv TIL: After filming ELF, Will Ferrell gave James Caan the GODFATHER trilogy with a note saying “Great working with you. The first one is a little bit slow, but the second two are really good.”
R7nKQ TIL In 1989 a naked man climbed a flagpole at a McDonald's in Anchorage, Alaska. He stretched his arms out and nosedived onto the pavement. There were no drugs in his system, and he has never been identified.