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TIL Robin Williams’ rider from 2002 makes no mention of hiring homeless people

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nnZd TIL that there was enough leftover footage from the first anchorman movie to make a second one.
4kmQ5 TIL that there is a "witch window" also known as a "Vermont window," found almost exclusively in Vermont. These slanted windows are installed at a 45-degree angle in the gable-end wall of a house and are designed to prevent witches from flying into the home on their brooms.
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
8ae58 TIL the word "dashboard" originated as a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" (thrown up) by the horses' hooves.
4gjR TIL that a fire fighter who was receiving $75,000-a-year disability pension, got caught competing in brutal kickboxing competitions