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TIL that in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, even the rats were insured - the insurer wanted to know the minimum number of rats and a policy was written with “1,000 rats deductible”

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VBwJ4 TIL The origins of hummus are hotly debated with the Lebanese, Turks, Syrians and Israelis all claiming to have invented the dish. International lawsuits and appeals to the UN and the EU have resulted from the so called 'hummus wars.' We do know the dish is likely about 700 years old
R9lw TIL After Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as gay, a statue of Apple in Russia was taken down to comply with the nation’s anti-gay propaganda law.
gM87b TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."
d8EAZ TIL if you are on most airlines (not all) and hear an announcement referencing "Jim Wilson", it's because there's a dead body on the plane
jQlp TIL Elon Musk produced “Thank You For Smoking”