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TIL Tom Green won 5 Rasberry Awards for "Freddie Got Fingered" in 2002. He showed up in a white Cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, and had to be dragged off stage because he wouldn't stop playing the harmonica.

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ADe7w TIL Olympians prior to and following their events hold massive parties or benders at the “Olympic Village” built in the hosting country. With tension and hormones running rampant, and in the comfort of a press free environment, festivities often include heavy drinking, wild sex, and even orgies.
GYdJ1 TIL We live in a time period where we have the most information about nutrition and exercise in human history at our fingertips but over 66% of the U.S. population is overweight.
p8NY8 TIL that an investigative journalist recorded himself eating 17 bars of chocolate produced using child labor and took himself to court for "knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product". When the case was dismissed, he founded his own slavery-free chocolate company.
P1N4O TIL about La Belle Otero, a 19th-century Spanish courtesan with hypnotic black eyes, famous for her numerous high profile lovers. Six men allegedly committed suicide over her. She inspired hotel architecture with her figure, amassed $25M, lost it all gambling, and died penniless at 96.
l7pya TIL the last two American Democratic presidents to die were Lyndon B Johnson, who became president when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Harry S Truman, who was president in 1945 during WWII.