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TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.

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LKvd TIL Immigration officer told John Oliver when at the US embassy in London applying for a Visa “Give me one good reason I should let you back in to insult my country???… Oh, I’m just kidding. Love the show.”
VMjkk TIL Dan Rather got in a fight with a cop at the 1968 Democratic Convention
XE5lP TIL Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” (later covered by Whitney Houston, and one of the best selling singles of all time) on the same night
wLva7 TIL A language typically can’t survive past 8,000 or 9,000 years, since it’s common for languages to mix and get replaced by other more influential languages or morph into new ones altogether.
16ZYP TIL there is a Civil War Diorama museum in Gettysburg that depicts the battle scenes fought by cats.