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TIL the Director of Thor Ragnorak, Taika Waititi, also did a TED Talk on Creativity

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nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.
gRWL TIL that when Joan Baez sent her legendary guitar to Martin Guitars for refurbishment, they discovered a message from a previous luthier which read “Too bad you are a communist”.
NXvVJ TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names
Mrga TIL Leonarda Cianciulli killed 3 women and turned their body fat into soap giving it to her neighbours and used their blood as an ingredient for cakes which were eaten by her friends, her son and herself.
vPyeL TIL that Liza Minelli, daughter of Judy Garland, the actress who played Dorothy in the 1939 MGM film, “Wizard of Oz,” was once married to Jack Haley, Jr., son of Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man in the same film. He was Minnelli’s 2nd husband.