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TIL McDonald's tried to get kids to eat healthy by inventing bubble gum-flavored broccoli.

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e0dYE TIL Joseph Stalin was huge film buff. He would always watch movies late at night in his private cinema. He often criticized films and even went on to right the soundtrack for some movies. He loved John Ford Westerns
e776 TIL that Monsanto has sued 145 individual US farmers since the 1990s for patent infringement relating to its genetically modified seed, including cases of unwanted contamination by Monsanto’s seed
GkxQ TIL when asked if there was validity in the media’s criticism of violence in his movies, Quentin Tarantino said, “Sure, Kill Bill’s a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”
j6oWE TIL that Chris Farley was to be the original voice of Shrek, with at least 85% of dialogue already recorded
OG68g TIL that shortly after his death, the corpse of actor John Barrymore (1882-1942) was “borrowed” by director Raoul Walsh and was left propped on a chair for a drunken Errol Flynn to discover when he came home. In 2020, John’s granddaughter, Drew Barrymore, confirmed this story.