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TIL Cooperstown was founded by James Fenimore Cooper’s father

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a8r4J TIL New York's Paramount theater would reek of urine after Frank Sinatra shows because the bobby-soxers would come for the first show at 9:15 a.m. and stay for show after show, determined never to relinquish a precious seat even if it meant soaking in it.
grZG7 TIL the studio behind the movie Se7en proposed a sequel called "Ei8ht" where a suddenly psychic Morgan Freeman chases an also psychic serial killer. The idea was dropped after director David Fincher replied, "I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
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VQGk TIL that when Wayne Gretzky retired in 1999, he held 61 NHL records. He currently holds 60.
6E8JW TIL that Georgia is considered the birthplace or "cradle of wine", where archaeologists have traced the world's first known creation of wine back to 6,000 BC.