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TIL that Big Lots completed and sold 100 Delorean Cars from parts when Delorean went bankrupt in 1982

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P4rO TIL in 1951, MGM owed the dog that played Lassie $40,000 in back pay. Planning on ending the franchise and in lieu of payment MGM gave full rights to the Lassie trademark to the dog’s trainer, who then spun it off into a TV show that ran for 571 episodes.
lm61 TIL that researchers in the 1960s attempted to teach dolphins the human language. This experiment escalated when the female researcher started to masturbate the dolphin and then later taking LSD with the dolphin.
9wQ6G TIL that this one stuntman, Takaiwa Seiji, was the lead-suit (protagonist's transformed form) actor for most of the Kamen Rider series from 1988 to 2020.
6mLY TIL that due to wasabi’s high cost, most ‘wasabi’ is actually mixture of horseradish, mustard, starch and green food coloring.
XlJk TIL Takeout coffee cups are not recyclable and billions are wasted every year