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TIL that Up 95% of All Rebates Offered to Consumers for Purchasing Products Go Unclaimed

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VQ5Q TIL John Langley, creator of the TV show “COPS”, intentionally shows more white criminals on the show than black ones, despite it being the opposite statistically. He still receives numerous complaints for portraying African Americans badly.
gMp6D TIL that the first ever manned flight into a hurricane was done in a single engined plane by Joseph Duckworth on a bet in 1943
bwX4 TIL for almost 30 years there is a sign on the flat roof of Mark Gubin’s building in the flight path of Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. A sign painted in letters 6 feet tall tells people arriving by air: “WELCOME TO CLEVELAND.”
0wll1 TIL the role of Django was originally written for Will Smith, who turned it down due to him feeling he wouldn’t be the lead actor
VBXaQ TIL Two of the Jackson 5 brothers fathered children with the same woman, making the children both cousins and siblings.