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TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost

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Z6OB TIL that Walmart recalled their donkey meat because it was contaminated …. with fox meat.
9wgeM Today I learned that the creator of Barney the Dinosaur had a son who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2013 for shooting his neighbour.
kOjJg TIL Shakespeare invented the “yo momma” joke. In his play Titus Andronicus, one of the characters, Chiron, exclaims “Thou has undone our mother” to which another character, Aaron, replies “Villain, I have done thy mother.”
L1ov TIL Michael Keaton vetoed Michelle Pfeiffer playing Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman as they had previously been in a relationship and he thought it too awkward. She would later star opposite him in Batman Returns.
GAvj7 TIL coffee beans are actually seeds from a fruit called the 'Coffee Cherry'.