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TIL George Clooney purchased a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named Max as a gift for then girlfriend, actress Kelly Preston. When their relationship ended, Clooney kept the pig for an additional 18 years until Max died in 2006. He has jokingly referred to Max as the longest relationship he had ever had

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TIL Traudl Junge worked as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary, from 1942 to 1945, typing out his last will and testament the day before his suicide. At 22, she was the youngest of his private secretaries, and years later said she felt guilty for, "liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived."

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TIL: Eugene Debs was a 5 times socialist candidate for president, a union organizer, and orator. While at his sentence hearing for sedition, he said, "While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

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TIL of Duncan Hamilton, a racing driver who was disqualified from Le Mans in 1953 due to a technicality. He went to a bar and got drunk, but was told he had been reinstated in the race shortly after. During the race he drank brandy on pitstops, hit a bird at 130mph that broke his nose, and then won.

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TIL Max Hamburgers is the first hamburger restaurant ever to outcompete McDonald's, forcing them to close their restaurant in Luleå, Sweden, in 1991. When McDonald's returned to the city a few years later, the popularity of Max Hamburgers once again forced McDonald's out of business in 2007

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TIL about Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama, and his disappearing 25 years ago.

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TIL For 'Interstellar' (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget

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TIL that the 17 y/o sole survivor of a plane that exploded in midair over a Peruvian forest, fell 10,000 ft strapped to her seat and only received a concussion and popped eye capillaries. She swam/floated down a river for 10 days and was mistaken for a river spirit by her eventual local rescuers.

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TIL that Jane Goodall Became One of America's Most Notable Scientists — Without a College Degree. Thanks to a trip to Kenya in her early 20s, Goodall met Louis Leakey, who saw her passion for animals and ability to observe them as her biggest asset.

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TIL of Dewey Readmore Books, resident cat at the Spencer Public Library in Iowa. After being abandoned in the library's drop box, he was adopted by the library and given the title of staff supervisor. He died at age 19, and his obituary ran in over 270 national and international newspapers.

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TIL that there are no Wendy's in Europe due to a local Dutch snackbar owner owning the Wendy's trademark in Europe. They have been in a legal battle for years and Dutch courts side with the snackbar every time.

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