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TIL In the UK there is a tv channel called Dave, the reasoning behind the name is because “everyone knows a bloke called Dave”

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wo8V7 TIL that baseball superstar Steve Garvey’s wife Cynthia left him in 1983 for music legend Marvin Hamlisch. Some people may only know Hamlisch as the guy that played the song “You’re So Vain” on the piano in the movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
oBwZE TIL although Kanye West repeatedly refers to himself as a "billionaire", professional estimates can't find anything more than $240 million.
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Oo8YL TIL that during screenings of the 1959 film The Tingler, - a film about a creature a creature that gets inside a person’s spine, causing them to feel a tingling which can only be stopped by screaming - buzzers were placed in random seats that caused the audience to feel tingling during the film.
599Q TIL that for the first time since 1967, new Tom and Jerry shorts are being produced on Cartoon Network.