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TIL that Fox News parent company “News Corp” has historically given more money to democrats than republicans.

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9Ym7p TIL: De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising is not available on iTunes or Spotify because of the complex licensing issues with the record's numerous samples. The album has been shunted between record labels, with no agreement found on the samples used.
jpkj TIL Alan Rickman almost turned down his first film role - Hans Gruber in Die Hard; changed his mind and suggested wearing a suit and pretending to be a hostage
nWJyB TIL only one person correctly guessed who shot Mr. Burns in the Simpson’s 1995 contest. The person made a post online and the writers wanted to give them a special gift, but they were unable to find the anonymous poster and on the DVD commentary, they were still searching for the individual
KO8pR TIL that roughly 2200 people are bitten by Black Widow spiders in the US each year. Zero of these recorded bites in the last century have resulted in fatalities.
X1gk TIL during a tour of Germany in 1958, Groucho Marx climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker, the site of Hitler’s death, and performed a two-minute Charleston