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TIL Small penises where consonant with Greek ideals of male beauty, while big penises were considered vulgar

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ZoKa TIL Charlie Sheen once spent over $6,500 for 2,615 seats in left field of Anaheim Stadium, determined to catch a home run with 3 of his friends. No home runs were hit that day.
j6LeR TIL that Idi Amin's best man was Yasser Arafat. The woman he married during that wedding, Sarah Kyolaba, became a hairdresser and later ran a small cafe in London. She died of cancer in 2015.
VBmpm TIL Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio, but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.
LmD9 TIL Sergei Bubka repeatedly and deliberately broke the world pole vault record by the smallest possible height so he could cash in on a Nike bonus with each new record. In a two-year span, he broke his own world record 14 times.
wo67 TIL: Chuck Feeney, a billionaire, donated most of his fortune anonymously and with no recognition, while flying coach, owning a $15 watch, no homes and no cars.