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TIL: Adults are unable to visit LEGOLAND Discovery Center unless they are accompanied by at least 1 child in their group.

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5lKk TIL Gene Wilder refused to watch the 2005 remake of Willy Wonka because he didn’t want to be disappointed in Johnny Depp
8lRV TIL the president of Algeria in 1992 was assassinated during a speech, his last words being “Look at those developed countries that are way ahead of us, why? they are ahead of us because of science, but the Islamic countries…”
xVoG1 TIL that there is a black market where professors write college papers and homework for students. A journalist tried to expose one site as a scam, but got an A- instead.
a7Vb TIL that during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Samuel Adams brewery sold 108 craft breweries their excess hops, at cost, to help prevent them from going under.
LMJQ TIL a former bonded child labourer from Pakistan escaped the carpet factory at the age of 10, helped free over 3000 kids from slavery, helped bring down Pakistani carpet exports by $34 million, before being murdered at the age of 13.