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TIL Cooperstown was founded by James Fenimore Cooper’s father

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NRDQ TIL a house right across the street from Westboro Baptist Church was intentionally bought and painted rainbow colors and hosted gay weddings to mock the infamous church
wZAE TIL that Betty Crocker included the instruction to ‘add an egg’ to their cake mix because it was too easy to make and housewives had felt guilty using it.
woLJ7 TIL the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire was created at the request of the Hampton Court in 1882. As they felt their collection of the European ones were incomplete without it.
90PX TIL that after being asked about the success of Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg replied “It’s not like I’m going to run off and do Mission: Impossible III!”. Two years later, he played the role of Benji in that exact film.
9wPVQ TIL Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong.