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TIL Omar bin Laden (one of Osama bin Laden’s sons) was supposedly denied a British spousal immigration visa because he did not provide his fathers permanent address

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loJma TIL Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
R5New TIL the cast and crew on the film Titanic were drugged after eating clam chowder laced with PCP.
aYly TIL that after Thomas Edison ripped off the first film camera from France, he used copyright laws to restrict imports of other cameras to the US. Sometimes he would use hired thugs (the Edison mafia) to violently stop people from using other cameras.
dDRPE TIL about Russell King, a convicted fraudster who claimed to be the wealth manager for the Bahraini royal family. He used this entirely fabricated connection to steal a soccer club, half an investment bank, and the mining rights to all the gold in North Korea
vDRL TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.