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TIL Ambercrombie burns its unsold clothes. They don’t donate them because it is a bad image for the company to have poor people wear them.

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gZ74 TIL Keith Richards, after being caught with an ounce of heroin and five grams of cocaine in canada, abandoned by his band and facing life in prison for drug trafficking, found himself alone in the studio the night before his court date, and recorded his first 5 songs ever has a solo artist.
b9GBN TIL about Salma Bashir, a girl whose intestines were sucked out of her body in a swimming pool, and now lives without her gallbladder and large and small intestines
16xD8 TIL about the Siège D'Amour (Love Chair). A chair designed and built by French furniture manufacturer Soubrier to allow the corpulent British King Edward VII to have sex with two women simultaneously while protecting them from being crushed by his weight.
XNg8 TIL Conan OBrien and friends dressed like construction workers and started tearing up a street. Conan then called city police to report his crime, and then called state police saying college students dressed as policemen were harassing construction workers. Both forces arrived to arrest each other.
4k0Ga TIL a toy boat sold for price of a real one at auction