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TIL The set of the original Addams Family was rather colorful as the hues didn't matter as much as saturation & contrast for B&W.

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8vPa TIL there is a book titled, The Mouse That Roared, about a small nation that declares war on the United States in hopes of a swift defeat to get money to rebuild its country.
grVb4 TIL AOL Time Warner lost $98.7 billion in 2002, still the worst annual loss in corporate history
awkmy TIL that Kim Jong Il’s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, was expected to succeed his father’s rule until he got caught trying to sneak into Japan to go to Disneyland. So that Disneyland trip prevented him from being supreme ruler of North Korea.
X0QlR TIL that the name Pelican Crossing is derived from PELICON, an acronym for PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled crossing
oRDKA TIL that Neptune was discovered in 1846 not by accident, but because astronomers noticed Uranus was wobbling off course. Mathematicians used Newton’s laws to predict where a hidden planet should be and when they pointed a telescope there, Neptune was right where the math said it would be.