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OEK4 TIL that Bill Murray does not have an agent or manager and reportedly only fields offers for scripts and roles using a personal telephone number with a voice mailbox that he checks infrequently.
pYBvQ TIL that Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself emperor of Central Africa with a ludicrous coronation ceremony in 1977 that cost nearly $20M ($90M today), almost bankrupting the country
GAJlQ TIL that the world’s oldest known living tree is over 9,500 years old and is located in Sweden.
Ddog TIL surveys in the U.S. & other countries show that college students continue to prefer printed textbooks to electronic ones by wide margins
QJM4E TIL The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing US President John F. Kennedy, is the first known human killing seen live on TV.