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TIL Harold and Kumar were written to go to Krispy Kreme, but after the company declined to be featured in the film, White Castle was selected instead. Happy about the free advertising, White Castle become the first fast food chain to have an R-Rated comedy advertised on fast food containers

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PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
kJ9ve TIL Carlos Mavroleon, heir to a shipping tycoon, was pressumed dead after a trip to France. He ended up in Pakistan and returned home 2 years later, now a muslim and fluent in Pashtun. He mingled in high society, left again to fight the soviets in Afghanistan, and later became a war correspondent
y1Ev TIL that North Korea is sitting on 6-10 trillion dollars worth of minerals it can’t access due to lack of technology and equipment.
Oo75e TIL that in 2005, a chinese man found that he could still buy lottery tickets within a 5 minute window after the winning numbers were announced. this allowed him to win over $4 million. when chinese authorities caught on, he was sentenced to life in prison
E77o TIL Nike founded and oversees an ultra-elite running group, with state of the art equipment such as underwater treadmills, and whose athletes live in a specially designed house where filters remove oxygen so the athletes develop more red blood cells in a simulated high-altitude environment.