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TIL as a preteen while horseback riding, Bryan Cranston and his counsin encountered Charles Manson, one year before the Tate-LaBianca murders

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MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
NXQZb TIL: aside from being an actor and an activist, Marlon Brando was also an inventor with 4 patents to his name. One of them were pool shoes that that would increase friction as you walk on the bottom of the pool to give you a better workout, and another invention being a single-tuning conga drum.
gya9 TIL Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel where his own mother worked. He found an escape in watching movies because, “you were never in doubt as to why the women in them were screaming.”
Me41K TIL that same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death in Iran, but Iranians can get a state-sponsored sex change operation to avoid punishment. Iran performs more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.
dDv7B TIL Russell Crowe once hired Nick Cave to write a sequel to Gladiator. The script involved Maximus waking up in the afterlife and being tasked by the Gods to track down and defeat the Greek god of volcanoes. He also time travels to the present day and an emperor's giraffe gets struck by lightning.