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TIL that Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto a space flight. The sandwich was dubbed the '30 million dollar sandwich"

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1aJ48 TIL of King Mithridates of Pontus, who ingested increasing amounts of various poisons in order to prevent his assasination by poisoning. When surrounded by enemy soldiers, he tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself with all of the poisons he had on hand but failed because he was immune.
e0ORD TIL that an Australian company developed a 22-karat gold toilet paper with a sale price of $1.3 million per roll.
jNAER TIL the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was 100% pure asbestos.
ZRRv TIL Alec Guiness was one of the few cast members who believed that Star Wars would be a box office hit; he negotiated a deal for 2.25% of the gross royalties paid to the director, George Lucas, who received one fifth of the box office takings. This made him very wealthy in his later life
xP17 TIL E.T. was originally planned as a horror movie - featuring aliens who can kill “by the touch of a long, bony finger”