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TIL about the Dog's Bollocks, a defunct punctuation mark which appears in the Declaration of Independence and symbolizes a pause but fell to the wayside because of its phallic resemblance

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mxpDR TIL that David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian ranch cult in Waco was a songwriter and musician that attempted to make it big in Hollywood. (Fact #5 on list in link)
8aEdL TIL the terms Top dog and Under dog are thought to originate from saw pits used in shipbuilding. Wood to be cut was placed on planks called “dogs”. The sawyer standing on top was in charge hence ‘top dog’ while the sawyer working in the pit would get covered in sawdust hence 'underdog’.
d8EB8 TIL taking lots of photos at an event will actually decrease your ability to build memories of it
GAxkE TIL in 2014 Anna Nicole Smith's estate failed in its final bid to obtain $44m from the estate of J. Howard Marshall whom Smith had married when he was 89 & she was 26. The oil tycoon died the next year & left his $1.6b estate to his son & nothing to Smith despite her claim he had promised her $300m.
e0Wkb TIL there was a short lived spin off of "The Golden Girls" called "The Golden Palace", where they all ran a hotel minus Bea Arthur. It oddly ran on CBS instead of NBC, and was cancelled after one season. Also co-starred a young Don Cheadle and Cheech Martin as a hotel chef.