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TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60lbs for The Lovely Bones by drinking melted Haagen Daz ice cream. He was fired for being too fat and replaced by Mark Wahlberg

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GYvR1 TIL Asia's richest person, Mukesh Ambani ($60.8 billion net worth), lives in a $1 billion home dubbed "Antilla" located in Mumbai, India. The 27-story home boasts a whopping 400,000 square feet of living space and has a staff of 600
R5pla TIL that King Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots.
R70da TIL drug lord Pablo Escobar turned himself in to the authorities on the condition (other than not being extradited to the U.S.) that he would build the prison himself and choose his own guards. The "prison" also featured a football pitch, giant doll house, bar, jacuzzi among other amenities.
ZpPKB TIL Earl L. Brewer, Governor of Mississippi from 1912 to 1916, never once made a public campaign speech while running for Governor in 1911.
wLOpW TIL French Canadian Private Leo Major single-handedly liberated the entire city of Zwolle from German occupation in WWII - and in one night.