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TIL The whoopee cushion is older than Christianity

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KYXra TiL Jerry Sadowitz had a 1987 album withdrawn from circulation after he refered to Jimmy Savile as a paedophile
loxYN TIL Jim Carey: The mask, Ace Ventura, and Dumb & Dumber all came out in the same year (1994)
WkN69 TIL term "EGOT" was coined by Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas who said he planned to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony within 5 years. As of 2019, he has yet to be nominated for any of the awards.
GYx15 TIL In 1945 Roman Catholic nun Elise Rivet volunteered to go to the gas chamber in place of a mother at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Less than two months before Germany surrendered she was killed at the age of 55.
wG18 TIL that in 1971 a small group calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a FBI office in Philly, stole over 1000 documents, exposed the extreme surveillance program COINTELPRO, and then sent these documents to the press, leading to the FBI shutting it down.