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TIL Sony used air mortars to shoot 250,000 bouncy balls down San Francisco hills for a commercial instead of using CGI in 2005. They broke $74,000 worth of windows.

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7XMP TIL in 2017 Pueblo County will become the first governmental body in the world to offer college scholarships to their best students, fully paid for by marijuana taxes.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
yrVl TIL In Iceland in the 70s a woman became convinced she’d subconsciously witnessed a murder, this led to six people being wrongly arrested and all confessing despite remembering nothing
yQjZe TIL that the largest underground shopping complex in the world is over 30km long, and is in Toronto, Canada.
rABx TIL in 1993, Tupac renamed his publishing company from Ghetto Gospel Music to Joshua’s Dream after a random, dead young boy named Joshua whose last wish was to meet him. He flew to Maryland and took Joshua to a basketball game shortly before he died.