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TIL Terry Crews used to draw and sell paintings of his colleagues while playing for NFL to help with his finances and of his family

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5AyB TIL The kid who played Flick, the one that got his tongue stuck to the frozen flag pole in the move “A Christmas Story”, became a porn star.
D1pND TIL the will of P.L. Travers (writer of Mary Poppins) specifically forbid all future American adaptions of her work
aw4eM TIL that the Dutch East India Company is considered the world’s first multinational corporation. It was a “company-State” that over its 200-year history, had stockholders, occupied territory, minted currency and even tried/executed prisoners.
pe1b TIL the doctor who claimed there was a link between vaccination’s and autism got his doctoral license revoked.
pYRlZ TIL in 1959, Ottawa Int'l Airport was planning to open a new terminal. But during rehearsals for the Opening Ceremony, a US fighter jet flew so fast that it caused a sonic boom, which shattered many windows, tiles, and structural columns. The opening had to be delayed by a year to fix the damage.