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TIL that companies can legally discriminate against people who smoke

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R5xKw TIL Wilson in Castaway was inspired by screenwriter William Broyles's experience when, during a one-week stay on an isolated beach for research, a volleyball washed up on shore.
l7n1B TIL that after writing Pet Sematary, Stephen King hid it away and intended to never publish it, believing it was too disturbing. It was only published because his contract with a former publisher required him to give them one more novel. He considers it the scariest thing he's ever written.
gM6p8 TIL the founder of the KKK, a Confederate cavalry general, later ordered the klan to disband and called for racial harmony between whites and blacks
76MX TIL when demolishing Pablo Escobar’s former house, the new owner found a previously unknown safe that to this day is still locked and unopened.
DQobJ TIL In France Squidward’s name is Carlos