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TIL Olympics Used To Award Medals For Art

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VMQbD TIL the original "laugh track" used in sitcoms was a physical instrument like an organ, was held under lock and key, and was owned and operated by only one man who knew how it worked. Charley Douglass used his "laff box" to create the laugh track for almost every sitcom in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
516p TIL poop is seperated into different classes by an official scale
wLJeo TIL that musical artist Prince's birth name was actually Prince
D1p7g TIL about Jonathan, a turtoise who was hatched in the 1830’s and is still alive today
R7oVl TIL as recently as the 1920s, Southern California was home to massive grizzly bears sometimes exceeding 2000 lbs. They were equaled in size only by the Kodiak bears of Alaska.