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TIL Jon Lovitz smashed Any Dick's head into a bar top at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles

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l7LB1 TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English.
m1jLx TIL that in 1926, the Poltiburo of the Soviet Union was made up of seven men, Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Alexei Rykov. By 1940, Stalin was the only one of them left alive, having killed all of the other members.
WkOPN TIL The earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War at around 430 B.C.. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia and Egypt, it crossed the Athenian walls as the Spartans laid siege. As much as two-thirds of the population died.
vPdL7 TIL: If you end up taking a robocaller company to court under TCPA laws, a common counter claim is a "manufactured claims" defense, because it's often necessary to bait the scammers to get the required information from them in the first place.
DdDD TIL the first guest to enter Disneyland was college student Dave MacPherson. He didn’t ride a single attraction because he had to get back to school. He was awarded a life long ticket to Disneyland (with up to 3 guests). The ticket has since extended to include Disney parks around the world.