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TIL popcorn was banned from movie theaters in the 1920’s because of the noise it made while eating it

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beA7 TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read only his lines for the final episode. He then threw the script in the garbage and made sure he would not know the ending until the episode airs on television
o86r TIL Santa Cruz del Islote is the most densely populated island in the world
aw56o TIL the derelict Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana was destroyed by a fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building
WkZGL TIL ‘Ahoy-Hoy’ was once the preferred way to answer the phone, as it was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred way to answer the phone. However Edison popularized 'Hello' because he thought it was easily heard and distinguished from other words.
JY1av TIL the reason you can't go into the arm of the Statue of Liberty is because of the 1916 German attack on Tom Black Island.