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TIL that when Rob Lowe learned of his tv shows cancellation halfway through making the first season, he made sure the last half of the season was “as absurd as possible”, ending the show by revealing himself to be a serial killer and then committing a murder suicide.

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gMG89 TIL that the position of "Commander in Chief, United States Fleet" was formerly given the acronym CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"). This was changed in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack.
e0Gek TIL apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas). It is not restricted to just seeing shapes at unexpected places. It also includes perceiving patterns in meaningl
4RmN TIL Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon earnings were invested in a floating restaurant, a fudge-making hotel, a computer game, a film nobody saw, a skateboard company, a car hire business, and a children’s shoe factory. All complete failures. They fled to France as tax exiles and recorded The Wall.
ROEQ TIL Mozart once conducted an orchestra, at the demands of the crowd, after standing during the performance and shouting that the orchestra had played a wrong note.
p8j8b TIL When President Cleveland lost the reelection to Harrison, he thought he was done with government. He and his wife lived in a hotel while searching for a house and the ex-president considered various lucrative job offers in the private sector, eventually accepting a law firm job