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TIL Siskel and Ebert briefly had a sidekick mascot named Aroma the Skunk.

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e0BXL TIL William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared a scene in a 1964 episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." - and both had forgotten by the time they first met on the set of Star Trek.
67Am TIL Saint Philosophus, before he was martyred, was tied to a bed by his persecutors. They then sent in a prostitute, in an attempt to take away his chastity before he died. With no other options, he bit off his tongue and spat it at the prostitute, who was so horrified that she ran from the room.
e0YY6 TIL some animals can be made from just one parent. For example, the Komodo dragon, only has a mother. Asexual reproduction, the most primitive method of reproduction, involves a single parent and produces a clone, an organism that is genetically identical to the parent.
ODw4 TIL that the actor that played Krusty’s dad in the Simpsons episode “Like Father, Like Clown”, comedian Jackie Mason, actually came from a family of Rabbi’s but instead chose comedy, just like Krusty’s character in the episode does
jNoR TIL that TRON (1982) was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt using computers was “cheating”.