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TIL that a mexican janitor named Richard Montañez made the “Flamin’ Hot” line of products and is now the executive vice president of multicultural sales and community activation for PepsiCo’s North American divisions.

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00K5 TIL Guillermo Del Toro left a notebook containing 4 years’ worth of ideas for Pan’s Labyrinth in the back seat of a London cab. The cab driver used a scrap of stationery from Del Toro’s hotel he found in the book to return it. Del Toro gave him a $900 reward.
RNAa TIL that Paris Hilton cost her family billions ($4.3 billion to be exact) because her grandfather decided to donate most of their money to charity because he was embarrassed at what she had done to the family name.
lg4K TIL of the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster which belched out trapped Carbon Dioxide from its bottom in effervescence suffocating every living animal within a 16 mile radius incl. 1700 villagers and 3500 livestock. The blue lake turned deep red from oxidization and water levels dropped by a meter.
nVRo TIL On their very first day of school children in Germany, The Czech Republic and Austria are given a cardboard cone (“Schultüte”) filled with toys and sweets.
aQ4A TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.