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TIL Caucasia is a real place, not just a joke my friends and I make about white people.

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rRbYx TIL a "bottle episode" in TV, in which characters sit around and talk for an entire episode, was created to save money and/or time, as in "we pulled that episode out of a bottle like a genie." Today it is revered, and shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Always Sunny have turned it into an art
nxwY TIL While bored on set, Dame Judy Dench embroiders obscene phrases onto cushions, such as “You Are A Cunt” and gives them to her co-stars as presents.
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