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TIL Much of the dialogue in the film "Fritz the Cat" was improvised or recorded on the streets of New York. For example, the director Ralph Bakshi went to a Harlem Bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to Black patrons and getting drunk with them while asking questions.

8allP TIL Reggie Miller, NBA Hall of Famer, couldn't escape his older sister Cheryl's shadow while in high school. On January 26, 1982, he scored a career high 40 points. He tried bragging about it on the car ride home, only to find out Cheryl scored 105 points and broken 8 national records!
x65G0 TIL that not all food allergies induce anaphylaxis or produce immediate symptoms - a certain class of allergic reaction called "Non-IgE-mediated food allergy" causes symptoms similar instead to food poisoning, often not for several hours after a meal has been eaten
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
7rD4X TIL that Gene Wilder got into comedy and acting because of his mother's heart condition. His mother's doctor told him to 'Try to make her laugh,' to make her feel better, leading to his conscious efforts to make other people laugh.
4wnb TIL Chinese insurance companies now offer insurance to protect individuals from being sued by elderly people they tried to help