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TIL Bruce Willis has publicly sold Girl Scout cookies for the United States armed forces. His daughter, Tallulah, sold him on the idea of buying cookies and sending them to troops in the Middle East. He did so and bought 12,000 cookies.

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N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
BgnBr TIL Sierra Mixe corn is a traditional crop grown in Mexico that has a symbiotic relationship to nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It has additional aerial roots that secrete mucous to support the bacteria that fertilize it.
R7oLQ TIL during the filming of Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro asked Cybill Shepherd out. She turned him down, and he did not speak to her, except in character, for the rest of the filming.
KY0aQ TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell 10 million copies of an album - CrazySexyCool. But they weren't cool about making $50,000 each for the album while the record company got $75 million. So, they held Arista Records President Clive Davis hostage until the NYPD intervened.
jxLj TIL that in Texas, the metric for whether or not a mentally retarded person can be executed is based on whether or not they appear to be smarter than the character Lennie Small from John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”.