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TIL about Dyers Burgers, who have been using the same grease to cook for over 100 years

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mxxxO TIL that for his aborted film project ’Napoleon Bonaparte,’ Stanley Kubrick amassed one of worlds most extensive and well-documented archives on the French emperor. He spent decades and thousand of dollars preparing for film because he was reportedly “unimpressed by every Napoleon film ever made.”
6EBrW TIL In 2006, The original 100 year old plaque from The Big Apple Jazz Club in Harlem (from which New York City gets its nickname) was rescued from the trash when a Popeyes fast food restaurant tore down the original building.
N7yAM TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)
GAxV5 TIL Jimmy Stewart earned 50% of the profits ($600K) for the movie Winchester '73 (1950). This is acknowledged as the first confirmed time in the sound era that a film actor received some of the movie's receipts as compensation, a practice now called "points".
Gnn4 TIL Hitler kept a framed photo of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, on his desk. Henry Ford also kept a framed photo of the Nazi leader on his desk in Dearborn, Michigan.