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TIL that 75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald’s hamburger buns

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aGKy TIL a man named Simon Bunce was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
D6Rp TIL that Hayao Miyazaki only permitted an English adaptation of ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on the condition that no part of the movie would be edited out, all names had to remain the same, the translation had to be as close to the original Japanese,& no part of the movie could be changed
W7Z1N TIL: Most “helium” balloons are filled with ”balloon gas”, which is recycled from the helium gas which is used in the medical industry and mixed with air
78wp7 TIL: The day Alice and Chains started recording their second album "Dirt," was the same day the 1992 Los Angeles riots began. The band escaped to Joshua Tree National park and waited there for about 5 days, taking Slayer vocalist Tom Araya with them.
yVk1M TIL that in 1999 there was a TV show called The Chimp Channel starring chimpanzees and orangutans that spoofed popular culture