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TIL FedEx CEO Fred Smith saved the company in the 1970s by gambling their last $5000 in Vegas

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nW9XW TIL: Curtis Jackson (better known as 50 Cent) lost 54 pounds for his role in the movie Things Fall Apart.
nWGno TIL that the inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can. Fred Baur, who designed the iconic Pringles can, requested that some of his ashes be buried in one after he passed. His family honored this quirky wish with a Pringles can placed in his grave
dDAMQ TIL that Shalimar Seiuli, the sex worker who gained infamy when she was seen getting into Eddie Murphy's car, died after falling five floors after she locked herself out of her apartment and tried to use a towel as a rope to swing down from the roof to an open window.
epDVg TIL that Kraftwerk got paid 200.000 euros for the official Hannover Expo 2000 jingle. It was 4 seconds long!
R7d8a TIL actor Joseph Fiennes was familiar with one of the key filming locations for Best Picture movie Shakespeare In Love (1998) as it was his ancestral home, Broughton Castle. Joseph is the fourth cousin of Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele, who owns the property.