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TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart considered his appearances on The Simpsons and Sesame Street "perhaps the two most distinguished bits of work that I've done in the US."

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9wMkB TIL Salem's eerie landmark, the Witch House, never housed witches. It was home to Judge Jonathan Corwin, known as "the hanging judge" from the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s, where 19 people were sentenced to death.
e0by5 TIL: A fortune cookie company once foretold the lottery, resulting in 110 winners
EaXw TIL in 2010 a Kentucky man was beaten and forced at gunpoint to eat his own beard during a dispute over the price of a used riding lawnmower.
OL81 TIL that under full throttle, a top fuel dragster consumes fuel at the same rate as a Boeing 747
y0aM TIL that having an abortion will get you automatically excommunicated from the Catholic church, but murdering someone wont (unless you murder the pope).