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TIL Jack Daniels operates a volunteer fire department

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YAKB TIL that the actress Retta, best kown for her Role as Donna Meagle in Parks and Recreation, is the niece of the current president of liberia.
WBgL TIL the movie ‘Charade’ (1963) entered the public domain immediately upon release because Universal Pictures published it with an invalid copyright notice
vPLpx TIL that the 1962 space-age pop album Latin-esque was recorded with halves of the orchestra in a different studio, separated by almost a city block. It was done to enhance the album's stereo effect, to achieve an exaggerated spatial image.
PY1kg TIL in 2003, the crew of a Chinese submarine died suddenly at sea and the sub drifted on its own for 10 days. Nobody knew anything was wrong until a fishing boat spotted the periscope.
9d7B TIL that after a falling out with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein–who had written the phrase “A rose is a rose is a rose–supposedly received a telegram from him that read: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch”