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TIL that Robert Downey Jr. only got clean because his girlfriend (now wife) saw him on drugs, then gave him an ultimatum of quitting or losing her. He stopped at a Burger King on the coast and threw his drugs in the ocean. She is now known around Hollywood as "the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey."

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9w5W6 TIL one of the first references to the mile high club was found in a betting book of a london gentlemans club. It read "LD. Cholmondeley has given two guineas to LD. Derby, to receive 500 Gs whenever his lordship fucks a woman in a balloon one thousand yards from the earth"
rN9Re TIL that sticking out one’s tongue is a sign of respect or agreement and was often used as a greeting in traditional Tibetan culture. Apparently, a cruel ninth-century Tibetan king had a black tongue, so people stick out their tongues to show that they are not like him (and aren’t his reincarnation)
Lrpm TIL In 1986, there were plans to put Big Bird on the space shuttle, to encourage kids to get interested in space. There wasn’t enough room for the puppet, and Caroll Spinney, who portrays the 8-foot-2 bird, was replaced by a teacher. It was for a seat on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger.
XELKQ TIL that till 2013 the legal age to become a sex worker in Switzerland was 16
1r54 TIL on 9/11 the fighters deployed to the flight that later crashed in PA did not have time to be armed, and both pilots were fully prepared to give their lives by ramming their fighters into the hijacked plane.