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v094 TIL that before filming LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson made the principal actors train for 6 weeks in sword fighting, riding and boating to allow the cast to bond. Later, most of the actors portraying the Fellowship got a tattoo with the Elvish symbol for the number 9.
Md4A TIL Costco sells approximately 100 million hot dogs a year in their food court – over four times the number sold in all Major League Baseball stadiums combined.
LQL0 TIL nearly 100,000 hemophiliacs around the world were given blood products contaminated with hepatitis C or HIV. Bayer, Baxter and the other companies involved knew the products were contaminated but distributed them anyway. The FDA hushed up the matter and no executives have ever been investigated.
GYyBg TIL cats don't have a consistent number of nipples. On average they'll have six or eight, but some have as few as four and others have an odd number of nipples.
8aBm8 TIL of Centralia, Pennsylvania a coal mining town in which its coal mine has been on fire since 1962 and still burns to this day.