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TIL the Georgia state legislature once debated the regulation of alligator rides, until someone pointed out that the bill called for regulating the sale of alligator hides.

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x6lXk TIL Johnny Carson was asked by Mel Brooks to play the gunslinger character in the movie Blazing Saddles which eventually went to Gene Wilder. Of that screenplay, Carson, while on a Mexican vacation, told Brooks "I read it in L.A. and it wasn’t funny, and it’s even less funny in Mexico."
N7Nve TIL that the famous classical composer Vivaldi died poor and no music was played in his funeral.
bxPE TIL Patrick Stewart was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek the Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”.
xVEN1 TIL: Men with older brothers are more likely to be gay. This birth-order related homosexuality has been linked to an increase in an anti-body found in their mothers who have previously had sons.
69AYJ TIL of Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian communist who made his own defence when put on trial by the Nazis for the Reichstag Fire. Acquitted, he eventually became the leader of communist Bulgaria after WW2.