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TIL: No insurance company will underwrite Jackie Chan’s productions. As such he personally trains his own stuntmen and pays their medical bills out of his own pocket. (Last paragraph)

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awpGJ TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.
LkX7Z TIL Sweden has the Worlds Second Highest Wealth Inequality in the World After the United States
gMw7D TIL that historically, the first thing to break down in times of widespread calamity is the exchange of food between rural and urban areas, leading inevitably to food shortages.
MN87 TIL Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ‘30 minutes or less’ guarantee because of their drivers causing accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time, resulting in at least one fatality.
Brx5k TIL during the 2008-9 financial crisis, the Jamaican Central Bank said that "Everyone should just chill out".