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TIL Robert Reed, the father from The Brady Bunch, was gay but never came out publicly in fear of ruining his career and the show

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4X0YJ TIL about the dangerous Onbashira Festival, which involves participants to ride on sixteen enormous 50-foot/15-meter, 10-ton/9,000-kg logs down steep mountains among other difficult terrains in a ceremony known as Kiotoshi, that takes place in Nagano, Japan. Injury and fatal incidents are frequent.
Dpar TIL In GTA IV, there is a children’s beauty pageant advertised online, and if you click on it, you get an automatic 5 stars for its pedophelic content.
ngXB TIL that even though Disney was willing to completely fund Lady in the Water, M. Night Shyamalan stormed out of their offices claiming they no longer valued individualism, because then-chairman Dick Cook didn’t understand the story. The film was later released under Warner Bros.
lY4A TIL the first official motor vehicle “speeding” ticket was handed out in the UK, when a gentleman named Walter Arnold was caught rocketing down the road at the breakneck speed of… 8 MPH.
BgM7r TIL that a French Soldier called Albert Severin Roche, had personally captured 1,180 prisoners. He was called the "first soldier of France" by allied supreme commander Marechal Foch