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TIL: There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in US

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KWpJ TIL George Lucas hasn’t been on the internet in 15 years: Not even e-mail.
joVn TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988
5Y9KQ TIL JH Kellog, inventor of granola, was estranged from his brother WK Kellogg. JH wrote a letter seeking to reopen the relationship. His secretary decided her employer had demeaned himself in it and refused to send it. The younger Kellogg did not see it until after his brother's death
BgWVK TIL The Marx Brothers radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel about an unscrupulous lawyer was orginally called Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle. The title changed after Morris Beagle sued because he was receiving prank phone calls. In show, Groucho's character changed his name because he divorced.
pvMG TIL that in 1906, the Bronx Zoo exhibited a 23 y/o pigmy African man named Ota Benga in their Monkey House, alongside an orangutan. He was later released, where he shot himself in the heart to end his loneliness.