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TIL McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.

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GALWj TIL that there was a person known as Kamehameha the Great who was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and he also is the namesake of Goku's signature move from anime Dragon Ball
OGnv4 TIL Horses don’t have a horsepower of 1, but rather 15.
41na TIL Tim Roth refused to audition for Reservoir Dogs & told Tarantino “just watch my past work.” Tarantino gave him the part while drunk, but later watched Roth’s last film, in which he said Tim Roth “was awful! He was the worst!”
VM1kG TIL David Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror."
wL7N8 TIL that during WW2, many of the spitfire planes used in the Battle of Britain were actually privately owned aircraft purchased by companies, clubs or individuals for £5,000.