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TIL Director Stanley Kubricks personal assistant was assigned many tasks including cutting fresh grass each day, laying it on the carpet for Kubricks cat to roll in, then vacuuming up the grass afterwards.

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nebko TIL The video for Welcome to The Jungle by Guns N'Roses was originally banned by MTV. It took the influence by David Geffen to get it aired for just one time at 4AM EST Sunday. The response was so overwhelming it shutdown MTV's switchboard.Appetite For Destruction went on to sell 30 million copies.
ZyOB TIL 171 people have vanished off Cruise liners in the last decade.
KYL66 TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken
1YRO TIL: When Four Loko first came out in 2005 it contained wormwood, the psychoactive in absinthe. They removed it after a year to cut costs, and instead focused on higher alcohol content and flavor.
wLAZP TIL that the Jack Thompson who tried to take down GTA is the same Jack Thompson who tried to take down NWA.