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TIL I can watch Broadway Musicals every Friday night!

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b6ZON TIL After deposing the English monarchy, the English Republic went on to shut down all theatres, forbade entertainment and banned Christmas. These were eventually unbanned when the Monarchy returned to britain
W7oE4 TIL The famous photographer Alexey Brodovitch repeatedly ran away from home to fight in the First World War but his father kept having him brought back home.
kJB9g TIL Elvis Presley craved the Fool's Gold Loaf, which consists of a hollowed-out loaf of French bread filled with one 1-lb. jar each of creamy peanut and grape jelly and a pound of fried bacon. It packs ~8,000 calories. He and friends once flew from Memphis to Denver to eat 30 of them.
j6kDM TIL that Thomas Lockley, the British “expert” that wrote on the “African Samurai” wrote the truth in Japanese, and total fiction in English.
WkLGX TIL open plan offices are bad for business – workers are 15% less productive, have trouble concentrating, and are twice as likely to get sick.