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TIL Bruce Willis has been sober since 1988

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10Ed TIL Matthew McConaughey was arrested in 1999 after police allegedly found him dancing naked and playing bongo drums in his house. He paid a $50 fine for disturbing his neighbors with the show.
Yp8gG TIL In the 1990s, an issue of the popular The Amazing Spider-Man that sold around 70,000 would be considered a failure. These days, what counts as a successful superhero book is anything that can sell a regular 40-60,000 copies. Most sell quite a bit less.
wZPo TIL Michael Jordan said the greatest part of playing for the US Olympic team was “learning the weaknesses” of his teammates for when they returned to the NBA.
nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.
5VvWP TIL that in February 1996, a British Airways Concorde flew from New York to London in just 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds—the fastest-ever transatlantic crossing by a passenger airliner.