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TIL in 2020, a diner in Denver, Colorado had "Stupid questions" listed as a side on their menu for 38 cents and some customers would purposely ask stupid questions to get the charge added to their bill.

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xV9p7 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. only got clean because his girlfriend (now wife) saw him on drugs, then gave him an ultimatum of quitting or losing her. He stopped at a Burger King on the coast and threw his drugs in the ocean. She is now known around Hollywood as "the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey."
YpBEP TIL of “The Hum” in which a small percentage of people around the world can hear a constant low pitch hum-like noise.
Pl7V TIL that Icelanders overthrew their government in 2009, refused to bail out the banks and formed a citizens committee to rewrite the constitution to prevent corporate fraud.
WQ7o TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”
16Gwr TIL that Jeffrey Dahmer photobombed nearly every group photo for the school yearbook and was finally caught when taking a picture with National Honor Society