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TIL the guy who called fast food restaurants causing managers to strip search young female employees for 10 years was acquitted at trial

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9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
4X85X TIL Megan Fox auditioned for Michael Bay for her role in Transformers by washing his Ferrari in her bikini.
b9ml4 TIL Nikolai Vavilov a botanist/agronomist that starved to death in prison to defend the importance of biodiversity in agriculture.
xVjxD TIL A man biked over 19,000 miles while vaping weed to disprove the lazy stoner myth
PYW1Z TIL Actor Paul Marcarelli – the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy – told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.