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TiL Hull woos Londoners with 5,000 pots of chip spice

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nlQB TIL that Costco sells a bulk supply of food that lasts ONE YEAR.
oAVW TIL that after being seriously burned in her disappearing scene in Munchkinland, Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) refused to do a subsequent scene requiring her to ride a smoking pipe broomstick. Her fill-in was hospitalized for eleven days with serious burns when the pipe exploded.
D1jbe TIL a year after receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting over 5,000 dollars worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue. Los Angeles D.A. Stephen Cooley assembled a team of eight prosecutors for the case.
nelDP TIL Gene Wilder agreed to play Willy Wonka only if he could limp out of the factory and then somersault when he meets the children.
pp48 TIL of the high pitched voice theory of the Neanderthal, that because of the shape of their vocal chords, size of their head and rib cage, it’s likely Neanderthals would have had a very loud, high pitches voices.