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TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was supposed to have an afro in Pulp Fiction. He was losing his hair so needed a wig. A PA went to get an Afro-style wig. The PA mistook the Afro for Jheri curls. Before they were able to return it, Jackson convinced Tarantino to keep it so he ended up wearing Jheri Curls.

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9YXaG TIL: Among the world's oldest living beings was a tree at least 4800 years old. With irony, "Prometheus" The Tree (AKA study plant WPN-114) finally was cut down in 1964 with involvement from a grad student studying long-living trees and the United States Forest Service. (natural,non-cloned beings)
DQoWV TIL TJ Maxx was originally a subsidiary of the now defunct Zayre Department store chain.
4PX5 TIL: In Texas in 2009, a man shot a prostitute he had payed for in the neck because she left without having sex with him. She became paralyzed, and died about seven months later but the judge ruled his actions to be legal.
yQJMp TIL Bernard Fox appeared in two films about the sinking of the Titanic, 'A Night To Remember' (1958) and 'Titanic' (1997). In the latter, he delivered the line "Iceberg dead ahead, sir!"
5V5wD TIL In 1990 Saudi Arabia expelled around 1 million Yemeni workers as the Yemen Govt. supported Saddam Hussain in the Iraqi war against Kuwait, an ally of Saudi Arabia. This resulted Yemen to lose out $3 billion in yearly remittances that these 'foreign' workers normally transferred to their homeland