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TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.

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looY5 TIL that during his 2004 tour, David Bowie was stalked by someone in a pink rabbit suit; Bowie shrugged it off: "I thought, 'Hey, it's rock'n'roll. It's just a 5ft 3in bunny.'"
j6kjR TIL Ulysses S. Grant was the first U.S. president to get a speeding ticket in 1872 for driving his horse-drawn carriage too fast.
rRGae TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in the US alone infected to HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the US market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so that they could still make money.
XYb6 TIL there is a galaxy-eating fireball 3 MILLION lightyears in diameter and hotter than the center of our Sun out there.
nwQb TIL in 1981 the Chicago fire dept. tried to kill a stuntman climbing the John Hancock Centre by spraying him with fire hoses while he was 37 floors high.