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TIL that George Washington was a redhead.

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4XbQX TIL: Alfred Hitchcock was so afraid of Psycho being spoiled ahead of time that he bought up as many copies of the original novel as possible. He also insisted that cinemas (for the first time) schedule screening times, sell tickets for those screenings, and not let anyone in after the film started.
6DG8 TIL Channing Tatum earned $400 for dancing and playing a bartender in Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’ music video.
jNRLN TIL there is a man who has been visiting the same fish for almost 30 years that comes to him whenever he dives in the ocean.
6EvkZ TIL Purdue sales reps were taught to sell Oxycontin as less addictive than competitors, and addiction symptoms whilst on the pill was "psuedoaddiction" and to tell doctors that the fix for these symptoms was to push higher dosage pills to cure this.
yQgEX TIL about spitting on 'the heart of Midlothian' on the royal mile in Edinburgh, Scotland - now done for luck but started in protest of a prison that hasn't stood in hundreds of years