Post * VMmJQ — Curious Curator

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TIL Whole Foods hires its employees by a process known as "Team Member voting" (Where your coworkers in your department will vote on you. A 2/3rd majority of them must vote to keep you on in order for you to stay and become a regular team member).

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v1aGB TIL Brad Pitt was paid a single cup of coffee for his Deadpool 2 cameo. Ryan Reynolds thought it would be funny to cast a high profile actor for a character that is invisible and worthless throughout the movie and then show up for eight frames of footage.

yVj4w TIL the full development archive of a SpongeBob PS1 game was leaked after the developer, Climax Studios, sold off their assets on eBay. In the leaked files, there exists concept art sketches (apparently created by a dev) that depict SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy having anal sex.

N7L1N TIL when Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, he was unaware that the Beatles owned all of the rights to Little Richard’s publishing. As soon as Michael found that out, he immediately gave Little Richard all of his publishing rights back

69L4w TIL that Gaddafi sponsored financially struggling German ice hockey team, to promote his Green Book on their jersey. It was dropped soon after because of backlash.

JYQMV TIL that during the Battle of Verdun, the French and German armies each fired more than 100,000 shells a day for more than 300 days over an area of 10 km2 (6 times smaller than Manhattan). In total, about 50 million shells were fired during this battle alone