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TIL that Elektra Records was so worried about ODB's "I like it raw" lyrics that they made him record a PSA encouraging safe sex.

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4Xm05 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors
Z8d0Q TIL Christopher Nolan waited to make Dunkirk until he had earned the trust of a major studio to let him make it as a pure British film, but with an American budget. He said, "Hollywood studios are interested in films about Americans, and there were no Americans involved."
J1paV TIL that a Voting Poll Booth was set up for just one Voter in Gujarat, India. The Banej polling booth, used to be set up during Gujarat and general polls only for him, who used to live alone at a Shiva Temple-cum-ashram in Gir West forest division.
X4nX TIL in 2007 a Belgian senatorial candidate posed nude and promised voters 40,000 blowjobs in a campaign ad. She didn’t win.
K8dJ TIL that many baby animals are unwittingly “kidnapped” by people who assume they’re abandoned.