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TIL If a person is a customer at a gas station in California, they are obligated to give you free air and water upon request. One should not be paying the $1.50 charge.

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xVvQo TIL that Freddie Mercury of Queen held a party in New Orleans in 1978, which featured nude waiters and waitresses, a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and dwarves walking around with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.
wbwY TIL An old Heinz QR code on a ketchup bottle linked to a German hardcore porn site. A German man who scanned the code thinking it would go to a design you own label page, got an apology from Heinz, and offer of a free year’s subscription from the porn site.
M7ZMb TIL: That Quentin Tarantino kept the only copy of the third act of the script to 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' in a safe to prevent it from being prematurely released. Brad Pitt later revealed that the only other copy of the script was burned by Tarantino.
N7gb8 TIL in the early 1900s, Dolly Korschel kept a secret lover in her attic for years, had the lover kill her husband after a fight, continued keeping the lover in her attic, and was charged with murder 8 years later but set free because there was a 7-year statute of limitations on murders at the time.
6Eo0Y TIL Parts (if not all) of Europe don’t refrigerate their eggs, and that unwashed eggs can last awhile outside the fridge as long as they aren’t washed. Info on why the U.S refrigerates eggs in article as well.