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TIL Jon Heder was only paid $1,000 for his role as Napoleon Dynamite

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PvEL TIL Papa John lives in a literal castle, but doesn’t provide his employees with health insurance.
1oDD TIL there is a stone in London enclosed within the walls of building, yet nobody knows its original purpose, and has been recorded in literature and maps since 1100AD.
kJBlm TIL the origin of The Windsor Hum - a mysterious low-frequency hum that plagued the city of Windsor for years, turned out to be caused by a U.S. Steel facility from across the river.
7r4yX TIL Beaufort's Dyke is a deep sea trench off the coast of Northern Ireland that the British have used to dump thousands of tonnes of munitions and nuclear waste. There are explosions happening down there that register on seismographs.
vPK08 TIL one of the members of the gospel group 'The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi', regained his sight, and was subsequently kicked from the group.