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TIL that the late Astros player Bob Watson scored the MLB’s 1,000,000th run. The run was sponsored by Tootsie, so Watson was awarded 1,000,000 Tootsie Rolls for his achievement

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pY0EN TIL during the filming of Gladiator, Oliver Reed (who played Proximo) died in a bar after challenging a group of sailors to a drinking contest. Some of his scenes had to be finished with CGI.
A7Yo TIL Bill Murray got arrested for suspicion of DUI after stealing a golf cart from a hotel and driving through the streets of Holmlund, Sweden
b6L6Z TIL: That when cast as a child prostitute in the movie Taxi Driver; Jodie Foster had to undergo psychiatric assessments and was accompanied at all times by a social worker on set. Her older sister Connie acted as her stand-in when it came to sexually suggestive scenes.
pVRQ TIL BuzzFeed writer Benny Johnson was found guilty of plagiarizing over 40 different times before he was fired. He was subsequently hired by National Review as a social media editor.
aw1BJ TIL that there's a Japanese version of Christianity that claims Jesus escaped crucifixion by switching places with his twin brother and settled down to raise a family in the remote village of Shingō