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TIL George Foreman has 5 sons all named George Foreman

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p8nxe TIL: Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no price. Guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.
4kgbJ TIL of physio-kundalini syndrome, a scientific measure of spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism
x67p5 TIL Retro Studio‘s idea for an open world Metroid game where Samus receives rewards for captured criminals was shot down because nobody at Nintendo knew or understood what a bounty hunter was, despite labelling her as such since 1986
QdZM TIL that in China in 757 during the siege of Suiyang, while they were short of food, the general Zhang Xun ordered his soldiers to kill the civilians in order to feed themselves. At the end of the siege ten months later, 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten and only 400 were left.
V4Vk TIL Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theatres at the same time in October of 1994.