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TIL that Mel Brooks was nominated for a Kennedy Center Award by President Bush. He refused the award, saying “Well, I’m going to wait for another president, if I’m still alive, if you don’t mind.”

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1NXX TIL that Lord Byron’s nickname for William Wordsworth was William Turdsworth
BRny TIL That in 1980 Saddam Hussein received the key to Detroit.
R54N6 TIL in 1998, a portion of the Titanic's hull was recovered and is now on display in a casino. Visitors are provided with a 'boarding pass' that bears the name of a passenger, and they can learn about the fate of that passenger at the end of the exhibition.
oBD1Y TIL that the last remaining copies of hundreds of silent movies made by Fox and MGM were permanently destroyed during two vault fires (1937 and 1965); including entire collections of some of the greatest actors and directors of the silent era.
v1dk4 TIL according to the EPA, handling most receipt paper (aka thermal paper) is likely dangerous to your health, due to the high levels of BPA, and using hand sanitizer before handling a receipt exponentially increases the amount of the chemical you absorb into your body.