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TIL the game Twister was nearly killed in its crib when the Sears catalog rejected it for being too sexy. But just as the makers were about to give up, the game was saved by Johnny Carson, who played Twister with blonde bombshell Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show, and sales soared into the millions.

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EgdB0 TIL In 1917, the world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina. It was a political satire called El Apostol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes. The film was lost after a fire destroyed the producer’s studio in 1926.
6ppQ TIL none of the world record holders in boomerang competitions are Australian.
jNYen TIL that famous jazz drummer Buddy Rich was once admitted to a hospital and was asked if he was allergic to anything. He answered: "Yeah, country music."
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MgXW TIL that until 1977, the nuclear launch codes were “00000000”