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TIL when Andre the Giant would go to Japan he would sometimes shit in bathtubs, or on newspapers because the toilets were too small for him

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mrmM TIL McDonalds does not pay time and a half to Employees working Christmas day because it could be “Discriminatory” to people whom do not celebrate Christmas.
6E8BY TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.
R5krw TIL while writing "The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck borrowed from the notes of Sanora Babb without her knowledge. She was using the notes for her own book, which was then shelved by the publisher, and finally published in 2004
X0GVX TIL there's 110 million landmines still buried, across nearly 70 countries
9w47X TIL that during the production of the film “Roadhouse” (1989), all the actors did their own stunts. Actor Sam Elliott recalled: "All the actors, as far as I know, did their own fighting. I fucking got the shit kicked out of me for the entire film."