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TIL that houseflies buzz in the key of F.

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KObo6 TIL the Michelin Guide has excluded Los Angeles since 2009. Former Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret said, “The people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit.”
r9vW TIL a man drove a tank through the Berlin Wall to escape living in East Germany
BE9k TIL Jim Carrey doesn’t make dramas any more because his beilef system prevents him from playing in movies that don’t project positivity
D1jEj TIL characters that are without anymore money in (older) cartoons wear nothing but a barrel, actually stems from a drunkenness law in England, among other countries, dubbed as 'The Drunkard’s Cloak', back in the 16th century.
ZpExa TIL Titanic passenger Edgar Samuel Andrew was so angry he had to board Titanic, he wrote in a letter on April 8, 1912: "... right now I wish the 'Titanic' were lying at the bottom of the ocean." Week later, his wish came true.