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TIL after inflation adjustment, the highest paid TV star of all time is Ray Romano for Everybody Loves Raymond

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KOlw4 TIL when Robin Wright showed up at Rob Reiner's house to meet William Goldman, the door opened and "[Wright] was standing there in this little white summer dress, with her long blonde hair, and she had a halo from the sun. She was backlit by God. And Bill Goldman… said, 'Well, that's what I wrote.'"
ENbo TIL that sun sneezing is called Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome and not everybody has it
wnBY TIL that although “Song 2” by English band Blur is what gained the band mainstream success in America, it was intended to be a parody of American music.
dvOQ TIL Twenty year old Ben Franklin devised a list of virtues to help him live a better life, a list which he followed until he died at age 84. They include: “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” and “avoid trifling conversation”
egwD TIL that the phrase “writing on the wall” comes from a story in the Bible where a disembodied hand warns of the end of a kings reign.