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TIL that the producers of MASH didn’t want a laugh track, their argument being that there wasn’t a laugh track on the actual Korean War.

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4XQrw TIL that Morgan Freeman has converted his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary, with 26 hives imported from Arkansas.
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