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TIL Roger Ebert co-wrote an x-rated sexploitation comedy
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TIL that Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. was also an original co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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TIL New York Times' puzzle editor Will Shortz designed his own major program at Indiana University, and in 1974 became the first and only holder of a degree in Enigmatology, the study of puzzles.
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TIL Dennis Rodman Was Pretty Much Kicked Out of N. Korea for Being Way Too Drunk
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TIL There's a kind of beetle named after Stephen Colbert. Colbert had previously asked scientists to name something "cooler than a spider" after him. The scientist that discovered the beetle then named it after Colbert, because "beetles are way cooler than a spider any day".
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TIL Robert Moses at one point held 12 titles simultaneously (including New York City Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission). However he only held these positions as an appointee. When he ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 1934 he lost in a landslide.