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TIL Robin Williams agreed to voice the Genie for SAG scale pay ($75,000) on two conditions: his name nor image be used for marketing and that the character not take more than 25 percent of space on advertising artwork; Disney reneged on both

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edL5 TIL to combat their population decline, a Danish travel agency ran commercials encouraging people to go on vacation and procreate. They provided an “Ovulation Discount” and offered a 3 year supply of diapers and a free trip if you conceived on the first trip.
698BJ Today I learned that you can craft the Sandstorm and Blizzard in a bottle accessories in terraria using a cloud in a bottle and hardmode items
VVrZ TIL that in 1998 a woman called Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship. Years later, photos emerged that suggested she may have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. Amy Bradley has never been found.
DW6P TIL that when Giacomo Casanova was forty years old, he purchased a thirteen-year-old girl in St. Petersburg as a sexual slave
VMJLp TIL that neanderthals could interbreed with modern humans, and around 66% of East Asians and about 70% of Europeans share genes with them