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TIL That the oldest manufacturer of Corn Cob Pipes is in a small town in Missouri!

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x9ow TIL during the filming of The Adventures of Milo & Otis many animal cruelty allegations were made against the film including the alleged killing of over 20 kittens, the director breaking a cat’s paw, and a cat plunging over 100 feet off a cliff.
goEA TIL that the movie “Escape from Tomorrow” was filmed in its entirety in Disney World, without Disney knowing about it. The actors read their scripts off of cell phones to keep themselves hidden.
kJOJ7 TIL, Simon Cowell’s first job in show business was cleaning Jack Nicholson’s ax on the set of “The Shining”
QDrk TIL that due to badly designed rules in a 1994 soccer game, Barbados deliberately scored against themselves, and then had to defend both goals against Grenada trying to do the same thing.
8ybb TIL Emmy was the ship’s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland. She never missed a voyage. However, on 28 May 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning the Empress sank.