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TIL Burj Khalifa isn’t hooked up to a municipal wastewater treatment system – so when you poop in the building, that waste is actually trucked out of the city.

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OoJge TIL that Lee Valley, a Canadian woodworking tool company, pays their employees on a “slope”. This means the top paid CEO cannot make more than 10 times the lowest paid employee. It also means the same CEO gets the same cut of their profit sharing as the lowest paid employee
0dABL TIL during the filming of the music video for Michael Jackson’s "Thriller", many famous entertainment figures visited the set. This included Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson and Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
XZ06 TIL Neil Flynn, who played Janitor on Scrubs, would improvise in the role so often that once the screenplay said ‘Janitor: Whatever Neil says’
wLeNE TIL that the producers of MASH wrote responses to hundreds of angry letters about the death of Henry Blake by explaining that a plane evacuating kids from Vietnam recently crashed with no survivors, asking if the viewers felt the same sorrow for the children as they did for a fictional man.
dQ8B TIL fashion designer Ralph Lauren’s original name is Ralph Lifshitz. He changed his name because, in his own words, “it has the word ‘shit’ in it”.