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TIL Americas first public crucifixion will take place tomorrow

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PYJLg TIL - Doc Pomus wrote Save The Last Dance For Me on a napkin on his wedding day while watching his wife dance with guests. He was wheelchair bound from polio.
6e58 TIL that while Mother’s Day is the busiest for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.
4kKy5 TIL Married With Children never had canned laughter. They filmed in front of a live audience that reacted to the scenes. That's why there's sometimes long, awkward pauses when they waited for the production team to shut down the audience.
X0EWE TIL Ted Kaczynski(the Unabomber) put his 8 life sentences as "awards of recognition" at his Harvard University 50 year reunion.
nepKd TIL that sausages have been commonly referred to as "dogs" since the 1800s due to a belief that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages. Consumption of dog meat was common in Germany up to the early 1900s so these suspicion was "occasionally justified".