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TIL All of Nicholas Sparks’ books (author of The Notebook) have been New York Times bestsellers.

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gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
x6LBk TIL that a town in Florida got the nickname “Nub City” in the 50s and 60s because the residents learned they could get insurance money by amputating their own limbs.
neQV9 TIL It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. The tower would be nearly 12,000 feet tall.
pBVG TIL that as a Jew, Jesus would have had short hair, but artists eventually gave him long hair to make him seem more god-like, in the image of the Roman gods Jupiter and Neptune
OKe TIL Apple set aside a record-shattering $378 million for its CEO Tim Cook last year. That’s over $1,000,000 a day, or nearly 60,000 times the salary of the people who make the products that make Tim Cook rich.