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TIL Ben Hecht started screenwriting after Herman J. Mankiewicz (Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane) sent him a telegram arguing that "millions are to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots." Hecht became one of the most successful screenwriters of all time with 2 Oscars & 6 nominations.

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LJed TIL New Jersey’s NHL team is named after the Jersey Devil, a legendary creature encountered by many including Commodore Stephen Decatur (who fired a cannonball at it) and Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s older brother. In 1909 the creature reportedly attacked a trolley and was fired upon by police
eG4L TIL that Yellowstone National Park’s geothermal hot springs are capable of dissolving a human body overnight
ZpDLB TIL about Nanuqsaurus ("polar bear lizard") a relative of T-rex that lived in the arctic.
J1pgv TIL that singer Carly Simon's father is the founder and namesake of the Simon & Schuster publishing company
p85OG TIL A guy known as the coughing major, won $1 million dollars on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by having people he knows in the audience cough at the right answers as they were being said by the host. He eventually got caught as show producers reviewed footage and found out he was cheating.