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TIL a man in NYC was punched in the face for looking like Shia LaBeouf. When the story caught the real LaBeouf’s attention, he offered the man his phone number and apologized profusely in a voicemail

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VBj70 TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.
6kPw TIL that Tim Burton will be directing the live action remake of Disney’s ‘Dumbo’, Danny Devito has already signed on as the ringmaster.
NX47E TIL as of March 2022, the most sampled hip hop track (a hip hop song sampled by another hip hop song) of all time is “La Di Da Di” (1985) by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. It's been sampled over 1000 times by such artists as Naughty by Nature, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Mos Def.
ADWjd TIL that a modern art critic was asked to review some of Adolf Hitler's paintings without being told who painted them. He judged them to be "quite good" while also stating that the artist's depiction of human figures in the paintings revealed his profound disinterest in people.
JDeQ TIL When Indian reservations started to earn big money from casinos, they began expelling their own members by the thousands to increase the payout for those who remained.