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TIL Frank Sinatra was so pissed off at George Michael for lamenting the “tragedy of fame,” he sent him a letter saying “The tragedy of fame is when no one shows up and you’re singing to the cleaning lady”

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nWJwG TIL despite seeming like an old-timely Italian tradition, the Feast of the Seven Fishes started in America and the first known mention of it is in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1983
4Law TIL: The Guinness Book of Records was created because the director of the Guinness Breweries got in an argument over what was Europe’s fastest game bird while hunting, and thought that there must be other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland. It was originally a marketing giveaway.
JYeP8 TIL that in 1897 the mayor of Seattle quit office to start a boat business and transport gold miners from San Fransisco to Canada
N7gGJ TIL a Missouri Man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi River to delay his wife coming home so he could party. He flooded 14,000 acres and was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
PoVG TIL Joyce Brothers became famous in the 1950’s for becoming the first woman to win the game show The $64,000 Question, despite the fact that the show’s producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway