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TIL during production of the 1935 musical Cain and Mabel the film crew realized the sound stage wasn't big enough, but they didn't have time to rip the roof off and build the walls up, so WB put hand jacks around the it and raised it off the ground before building wall underneath it.

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E1Jbw TIL From 1994-99 George Foreman was paid about 40% of the profits on each Foreman grill sold, earning him $4.5M a month in payouts at its peak. In the period it’s estimated he received over $200M, more than he did as a boxer.
j5EX TIL the law requiring American TV news stations to provide viewers with contrasting points of view, called “The Fairness Doctrine”, was eliminated in 1987.
eE0L TIL that there are detailed images of all the Apollo landing sites. You can even see the tracks left by the Astronauts as they performed their experiments.
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