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TIL that Taco Bell failed to pay the men who pitched the idea of the Taco Bell Chihuahua and later were court ordered to pay $42.1 million dollars.

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8e0LP TIL that Randy Weaver was awarded $3.1 million over the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff.
XLMr TIL Billie Piper, in her split from DJ Chris Evans, was entitled to 30 million GBP ($50 million US) but refused to take it stating, “I think that’s disgusting.” In reference to the idea she should take the money.
9YaZM TIL someone on the set of titanic spiked the seafood chowder with PCP and got dozens of cast and crew members high including director James Cameron
PxjZ TIL after Dave Chappelle walked out on his enormously popular sketch show in the middle of producing Season 3, he told Comedy Central that the only way he would resume production would be to donate half of the proceeds of future DVD sales to charity. The network did not take the deal.
AeZg TIL a large patch of critically endangered Mount Diablo buckwheat wildflowers–thought to be extinct for nearly 70 years–was spotted at a nature preserve in CA. Location was kept secret for months for fear that hikers and vandals would destroy them.