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TIL a failed marketing gimmick by Marlboro killed and injured multiple people in Poland. Sales reps. would distribute free cigarettes and light them with easy-lit matchsticks. The matchsticks were lit by pretty much anything they touched and caused a deadly car fire on one occasion.

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YP07 TIL that Charles Bronson, Britain’s most violent prisoner actually shaved his trademark mustache off so Tom Hardy could wear it during the filming of “Bronson” which based on his life in prison
awoN TIL Alice Cooper led the movement to restore the dilapitated Hollywood sign, in the 1970’s. He then fully paid for the third “O” himself, dedicating it to Groucho Marx.
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