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TIL That Jack in the Box was sued for running ads saying that Carl's Jr and Hardees were selling burgers made of cow anus

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bgK9 TIL that more than 70% of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, and in some areas, it’s closer to 80%.
BrKr TIL Russell Crowe was unhappy with the screenplay of Gladiator. The famous line “In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance” he initially refused to say, telling writer ”Your lines are garbage but I’m the greatest actor in the world and I can make even garbage sound good”.
xVON5 TIL in the final years of World War II, Italian businessman Giorgio Perlasca risked his life by posing as a Spanish diplomat in order to save more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Perlasca, a non-Jew, has been honored for his heroism, courage, and compassion by several nations
ADpQl TIL that after fyre festival failing miserably and facing a class action lawsuit of $100 million, the company actually threatened legal action against attendees for tweeting negative comments about it.
XQv8 TIL John H. Kellog, the father of Kellogs, devoted his life to preventing masturbation. He used acid to remove the clitoris and hoped that feeding children plain cereal every morning would help to combat the urges of “self-abuse”