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o7Br TIL A foreigner can invest $500,000 in a U.S. business to receive a green card.
kJK5 TIL that Mark Twain appeared on film only once. The footage was shot by Thomas Edison in 1909, a year before Twain’s death. In addition, there exists no recording of Twain’s voice.
w9Bo TIL In 2008, a manager at BusinessWeek magazine in New York became trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. The lawsuit ($25 million) he eventually filed against the building’s management company took 4 years to complete during which time he lost his job, his money, his colleagues and his apartment.
b9Oe7 TIL that between 1941 and 1942 the soviets tried to train "Anti-tank dogs" to blow up German tanks. However the dogs would usually run back into the trenches killing soviet soldiers.
GYN1Q TIL that during the filming of The Wizard of Oz and at other times of her career, Judy Garland was forced to diet and eat very little, and was bullied into using tobacco to suppress her appetite - all to keep her from looking at all chubby.