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TIL Charlize Theron was discovered by a talent manager in 1994, after she was spotted throwing a tantrum inside a bank over the teller’s refusal to cash a check.

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MevVV Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
78GJX TIL: In 1999 the Deer Terrace Pavilion was uncovered in China dating back to 1046 BC. It was a pool named the "Lake of Wine and Forest of Meat" which was filled with wine and meat was hung around it. King Zhou reportedly died there after his defeat and burned it, his jewels, and himself.
gMlA9 TIL an 18th century American businessman published a book in which he ranted about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. It had no punctuation and had random capitalization. In the 2nd edition, he added an extra page with 13 lines of punctuation marks, stating that readers could put them anywhere.
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
wLL58 Til of Henry Darger- The Chicago janitor and author of a 15,145-page fantasy epic titled "In the Realms of the Unreal"; complete with over 300 accompanying watercolor illustrations filled with nude children.