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TIL that 95.8% of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family only

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5YK68 TIL Russell Crowe hated the big speech scene in Gladiator where he confronts Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), unsuccessfully trying to improvise new lines and ultimately saying "It was shit. But I'm the greatest actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good."
KOGrE TIL of the infamous "Chicken Incident", when a chicken made its way on the stage of an Alice Cooper gig. Cooper, thinking a chicken would fly, picked it up and proceeded to throw it onto the crowd. It landed on the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who then teared the chicken to pieces.
9AQQ TIL that in 2006 PETA killed 2,981 pets and only 12 were adopted and in 2008 the Centre for Consumer Freedom petitioned to have PETA reclassified as a ‘slaughterhouse’
gVB9 TIL Ben and Jerry’s have an actual cemetery for discontinued flavors of ice cream!
MZpA TIL that several companies have started selling cannabis-laced coffee, claiming to give users an added “buzz” to their cup of joe