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TIL R. Lee Ermey, best known as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, was the first retiree in the history of the Marines to be promoted.

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5p7k TIL After filming Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Bob Hoskins suffered hallucinations for months afterwards due to interacting with the imaginary characters.
G7P5 TIL that during the Black Death, many people in Florence participated in orgies and got heavily drunk thinking that it would kill of the disease.
Y7mpW TIL The world’s oldest amusement park is in Denmark and it started in 1583!
9wLWB TIL about the 1951 mass poisoning in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, where over 250 people experienced hallucinations, madness, and severe illness after eating contaminated bread. The incident resulted in 7 deaths, and the cause was later attributed to ergot, a fungus found in rye flour.
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”