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TIL that Victor Gruen who designed the first mall in the US, in later years hated what he created and even disowned it

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W7BrX TIL Ben Affleck’s habit of ad-libbing annoyed Kevin Smith so much during Chasing Amy that Smith told him to write his own script. Affleck ending up co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon and won an Oscar.
graRD TIL that in 1976, when the NBA was merging with the ABA, Ozzie and Daniel Silna turned down an offer to sell their ABA team for $3.3 million. Instead, they negotiated a deal to receive a share of the NBA media rights in perpetuity. Through this deal they eventually earned about $800 million.
vOZr TIL US wall sockets don’t come with a switch as standard, and you have to unplug to reduce “standby” wastage.
9XlX Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she had to be hospitalized for six months in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds.
OGOa6 TIL the 7 placebo pills of hormonal contraceptives have no medical function. They were included in the 1960s to mimic menstruation and improve social and religious acceptance, especially in hopes of approval from the Catholic Church.