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jNNvE TIL when Norman Lear finished shooting the 'All In The Family' pilot he didn't have enough money left in the budget to do a proper main title sequence. So he shot Carroll O'Conner and Jean Stapleton singing 'Those Were The Days' at the piano in front of a live audience.
OvJg TIL of the Kalash people, a white-skinned, blue-eyed tribe in the back country of Pakistan, who claim to be descendants of the ancient Greeks.
6QyY TIL A college student created a functioning prosthetic arm that consists of a single forearm long tentacle like appendage.
e0EZJ TIL that there have been declared nations that lasted less than one day, including an 8 second claim of independence by the Catalonian prime minister during a speech in 2017
Ypy9A TIL: Up until the 1950's, NYC had an abundance of wild marijuana plants, with some in Brooklyn growing as high as seven feet tall. They were all eventually eradicated by the Department of Sanitation, destroying nearly 41,000 pounds of wild weed.