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TIL that Jean-Marc Bosman, whose football transfer led to a ruling that completely changed European football (allowing players to freely move after their contracts end, and making foreign player quotas illegal), ended up bankrupt, his marriage ruined, depressed, alcoholic, and now relies on handouts

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wDXE TIL that actor Andre Royo’s portrayal of the heroin addicted character “Bubbles” from The Wire was so good, that an actual Baltimore citizen gave Royo a vial of heroin on the streets in between shoots, saying, “you need a fix more than I do.” Royo calls it his “Street Oscar.”
P1MoE TIL pepitas are just pumpkin seeds with the husk removed
PYnEL TIL Whitney Houston died in suite 434 of the Beverly Hilton hotel. After a reported stream of insensitive guests who partied in the room “like Whitney did” and even snapped pictures of themselves lying in the bath where it happened, the hotel removed the room
OoKM6 TIL a producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”
OGQo6 TIL human poop is used as fertilizer on farm fields