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TIL Aluminum Christmas trees dropped in popularity after their negative portrayal in A Charlie Brown Christmas

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e09WE TIL that kool-aid man is technically a marvel character.
oB478 TIL in 2004 French police discovered an underground cinema that had been built in secret beneath the Paris catacombs. When they returned to it three days later, they found a note reading “Do not try to find us”.
NwyJ TIL in 1959, three schizophrenics who all thought they were Jesus were forced to live together in the same mental hospital, to test the strength of self-delusion.
mZ7M TIL that the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for a special-effects award because, according to director Steven Lisberger, “The Academy thought we cheated by using computers”
XE5lP TIL Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” (later covered by Whitney Houston, and one of the best selling singles of all time) on the same night