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TIL Jackie Gleason made $11 million dollars for making the Honeymooners.

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DQ9rY TIL that in Thailand, There is a program where prison inmates fight each other in combat sports where whoever wins gets a sentence reduction or even freedom
KOZE4 TIL Sony made an ad for their color display technology featuring 1/4 million brightly colored bouncy balls released down the steep streets of San Francisco. About 50 students were hired to help collect them using skates and floor squeegees at the bottom after each take.
eRmk TIL Jonah Hill almost drowned off the coast of Australia after Channing Tatum got him blackout drunk.
WkngA TIL nerve cell proteins can be genetically engineered & remotely controlled by radio waves and magnetic fields, by attaching them to an iron-storing protein called ferritin
xKZk TIL: All white tigers are the result of severe inbreeding. Most white tiger cubs are euthanized due to some type of deformity including eyes on the sides of their heads, deformed jaws and teeth, misshapen skeletal structure, mental disabilities, allergies, and weak immune systems