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TIL that Jed, the dog who played the "villain" dog in the 1982 film The Thing was the same dog that played White Fang in the 1991 Disney movie

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Agnl TIL “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” TMZ reports the family will be paid over $40 million for the 3 seasons, making the deal the richest contract in reality TV history
MVpm TIL that Festivus was created in 1966 by Readers Digest editor, Dan O’Keefe. It marked his first date with his wife. Years later his son, Daniel O'Keefe, became a writer on Seinfeld and Festivus became what we know it to be now.
XW8E TIL that Patsy Cline was offered a car ride back to Nashville with singer Dottie West. Cline refused, telling West, “Don’t worry about me, Hoss. When it’s my time to go, it’s my time.” Patsy Cline died in a plane crash later that same day.
Lkmgv TIL Hungry Jack’s fought for 40 years to get the Burger King name, but when they won, they decided Hungry Jack’s was more iconic.
PXNL TIL Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits, 162 spoken, 38 written.