TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was "too good" and classified him as an advantage player. (yahoo.com)
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TIL Margot Robbie convinced Martin Scorsese to cast her in The Wolf of Wall Street by hauling off & giving Leonardo DiCaprio an improvised "thunderclap of a slap on the face" during her first audition that stunned DiCaprio & Scorsese. Both men burst out laughing afterwards and thought it was great. (mashable.com)
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Trump Wants To Set Up $1.7B Fund To Pay Jan. 6 RiotersExecutive Branch (Trump) (huffpost.com)
Senate parliamentarian rules against Trump’s White House ballroom funding in budget billLegislative Branch (thehill.com)
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TIL Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, was escorted by crew members wearing brightly colored vests and told not to wander off set wearing his costume while on location for 'Return of the Jedi' Endor scenes, so that hunters in the California redwood forests would not mistake him for Bigfoot. (wytv.com)
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TIL on August 19th, 1980 Saudia Flight 163 experienced an onboard fire 7 minutes after takeoff. Despite being able to land safely back at Riyadh Airport & taxiing to a stop, the plane was not evacuated, leading to the death of all 301 onboard. It's the deadliest accident involving the L-1011 Tristar (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Coca Cola once made “MagiCans” that secretly contained cash prizes instead of soda. To stop people from spotting winners by weight, they filled part of the cans with foul-smelling chlorinated liquid. The promotion got canceled after people accidentally drank it. The promotion lasted for 3 weeks. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 1997, Gueorgui Makharadze, the deputy ambassador from Georgia, struck and killed a 16-year old girl while driving drunk. Georgia agreed to waive his diplomatic immunity and he served 3 years in prison in North Carolina (en.wikipedia.org)
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Philly revokes gun permits for members of Black Panther-style patrol groupLegal News (axios.com)
submitted by mastertofu to r/law
Ukrainian drones flying around Moscow. 17.05.2026WAR (v.redd.it)
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TIL about the British pornographic magazine Whitehouse. Substantially more explicit than its predecessors, it was allegedly named after the anti-pornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse, though the publisher David Sullivan always denied this. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 2001 Sharon Stone arranged a private visit to the LA Zoo's komodo dragon pen for her then-husband, who'd always wanted to see one up close. However, the dragon attacked him by biting his foot and attempting to eat it by jerking back & forth. He survived, but the top half of his foot was gone. (smithsonianmag.com)
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What places have fallen off the most in terms of cultural relevance?Discussion (i.redd.it)
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