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TIL Neil Simon wrote an intentionally bad Broadway play because his ex-wife was entitled to the profits as per their divorce agreement.

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RJXa TIL France has done more nuclear weapons testing than the UK, China, Pakistan, India and North Korea combined
e01VE TIL of Plennie L. Wingo who walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey in 1931 and still holds the Guiness record for the greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism.
xbN1 TIL that John Cazale (Fredo Corleone from “The Godfather”) appeared in only five films during his lifetime. All five were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Three of them won.
ZwoQ TIL: We now consume about 100,000 words each day from various media, which is a 350% increase, measured in bytes, over what we handled back in 1980
p1EA TIL: Lemmy Kilmister drank a bottle of Jack Daniels everyday from 1975 to 2013.