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TIL of Prison View, a public golf course located inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola).

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e0nED TIL that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn't like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn't like the "anti-consumerism" theme of the plot -- and they didn't like the music.
xVJ8g TIL that director Steven Spielberg's father is 103 (!!!) and won a Computer Pioneer Award in 2006.
w8eY TIL Marilyn Monroes was Playboy’s first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the Month. Marilyn had been paid $50 to model for the picture in 1949; Hugh Hefner bought it for $500 and launched an empire.
X0mlD TIL the highest-ranking officer of the British Royal Navy at the start of World War 1, was a German prince named Louis of Battenberg, who was made to resign and later abandon his German dynastic titles due to anti-German sentiment in Britain
5YEb9 TIL Nixon's infamous "I'm not a crook" press conference took place in Disney World, also making it the first time a sitting president visited the resort