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TIL After Bill Cosby's crimes, and all reruns of the Cosby Show being dropped, actor Geoffrey Owens was forced to bag groceries at Trader Joe's due to royalties drying up. Tyler Perry discovered this and picked him up for a 10 part role in a TV show, kick-starting back his career.

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0dv95 TIL during the filming of The Outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood persuaded the producer to fire the director and Eastwood took over the role. In response, the Directors Guild of America created the Eastwood Rule prohibiting an actor or producer from firing the director and then becoming director.
9YbaM TIL:In 2005, 51% of graduating students at BYU were already married
vgvR TIL that the rivalry between the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul was so intense that at one point they resorted to kidnapping each others census workers so that one city would not outgrow the other
VMe18 TIL Karate changed it's spelling from 唐手 to 空手, changing it's meaning from "Chinese hand" to "empty hand" (both are pronounced karate). This was because of Japanese militarism, they wanted to conceal the fact that it developed under the influence of Chinese kung fu.
Z8G7p TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.