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TIL that when Kurt Russell portrayed Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, he had been starring in Disney productions for much of the previous decade; Russell wanted to escape family-friendly typecasting

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wvxJ TIL Lizzie Velásquez, age 27, is one of only three people in the world who suffer from the same unnamed genetic condition. Medically unable to gain weight (her highest weight was 64 lb/29 kg) and having 0% body fat, she must eat on average every 15-20 minutes (about 60 small meals per day).
xVvJg TIL in 1898 Andrew Carnegie was so opposed to the American annexation of the Philippines he offered to personally refund the $20million the US spent purchasing it from Spain in exchange if it meant the islands would be granted independence.
DQoLD TIL in the 15th and 16th centuries, the average person in France ate between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds of bread each day. While bread made up most of the poor's diet, the rich also enjoyed meat and an additional two liters of wine per day.
mxVMp TIL Werner Herzog once promised fellow documentary maker Errol Morris that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever finished his movie on pet cemeteries, because he found Morris to be incapable of ever finishing his projects. In 1978 Morris finished his film, and Herzog publicly cooked and ate his shoe.
x67Zo TIL about a fancy apartment in Paris that was abandoned in 1942. It became a time capsule that remained untouched until 2010.