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TIL that Fred Mertz does not appear in two episodes of “I Love Lucy” due to the actor William Frawley’s contract, which stated that he did not have to work if the NY Yankees were playing in The World Series.

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loJaK TIL in Japanese department stores, the staff will offer to put a plastic cover on your shopping bag when it rains. All of the staff knows it is raining outside without looking is because of a special BGM played only when it rains.
GvN4 TIL Tim Curry is a huge Scooby Doo fan, and accepted a role in the 2002 film, then dropped out after learning that Scrappy Doo, a character he hated, was in the movie.
ZYKG TIL that in 1730,when pirate Olivier Levasseur was hanged he threw a coded message into the crowd. He shouted “Find my treasure,he who may understand it! The treasure remains lost.
BQnL TIL That an Irish man owns a house that is actually made from decommissioned Euro bills previously amounting to 1.4 Billion Euros.
awGmA TIL that Kangchenjunga, the tallest mountain until a survey of Everest in 1849, has never been fully climbed. The first people to reach the top in 1955 stopped short of the summit because they promised the ruler of Sikkim to keep the sacred mountain intact. Every climber since has done this, too.