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TIL that Red Foxx’s (of Sanford & Son) real name is John Sanford. And his real life Dad is Fred Sanford.

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QaJa TIL that actor Chris Pratt used to live on a beach in Hawaii where he “camped, smoked a bunch of weed, and drank and worked just enough to cover gas and food and fishing supplies.”
b6X4a TIL that the first instance of Panda Diplomacy was by Madame Chiang, who arranged for pandas to be sent to San Francisco as a dramatic way of saying thank you. The pandas received attention, but not as much as hoped, because on their way to the US, Pearl Harbor had been bombed.
rK0e TIL Charlie Chaplin was born 4 days before Hitler and his character, Tramp, has the same mustache as him. This and being named a Jew and placed on a hitlist by Nazis inspired his film, The Great Dictator, where in the last speech he is actually talking to the audience as himself, not a character
bGr0 Request for identification of frequent TILs reposts. Provide TIL reddit link as a top-level comment.
gN69 TIL $100,000,000 lawsuit claiming the film Sister Act was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet. Disney offered $1,000,000 to settle of out court the but the plaintiffs declined. Eventually the judge found in favor of Disney and the other defendants, the plaintiffs got nothing.