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Today I learned Mikhail Gorbachev did ads for Pizza Hut

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wr77 TIL Fidel Castro had sex with 35,000 women, according to an ex-Castro official. At least two a day for more than four decades. ‘One for lunch and one for supper. Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast.’
RVP8 TIL that Sony BMG used music cds to illegally install rootkits on users computers to prevent them from ripping copyrighted music; the rootkits themselves, in a copyright violation, included open-source software.
vPZbL TIL there's an Underground river beneath the Amazon River, it was discovered in 2011 and its about as long as the Amazon river, but it is much broader. It's unofficial name is the Rio Hamza
nWDrB TIL that the crucifixion scene of an Italian movie about the story of Barabbas (the criminal freed instead of Jesus) was recorded on February 15th 1961 during an actual total Solar eclipse.
Y7ZEA TIL There are fake animal rescue videos, where people deliberately put pets into dangerous situations.