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TIL when the Pentagon called one the original Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurants requesting delivery service, one of the founders (Jerry Murrell) declined to bend the rules for their request and instead ordered a 22-foot-long banner that said ‘ABSOLUTELY NO DELIVERY.’

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x6BrD TIL, that MacArthur Park featured in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was sung by the original Dumbledore himself..Richard Harris
GQgG TIL that Nickelodeon’s green slime earned its nickname “GAK” after the street name for heroine due to the crew of “Double Dare!”’s recreational drug usage.
wQmE TIL producers of Animal House offered Donald Sutherland a fee of either 2% of the film’s gross or $35,000. Sutherland had little faith in the movie so he took the $35,000 resulting in a loss of $2.8 million, or upward of $10 million after inflation.
awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.
0dWwA TIL that one of the earliest forms of biological warfare was used by the Mongols, who would catapult plague-infected bodies over city walls to infect their enemies.