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TIL that Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Fred (William Frawley) of I Love Lucy hated each other. While out to eat she heard of his death, she celebrated and ordered everyone in the restaurant a bottle of champagne

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1aMZW Today I Learned that in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), pilot Wedge Antilles was played by three people. The first actor (Colin Higgins) was fired after one day on set, and the second actor (Denis Lawson) had a bad accent so a third actor (David Ankrum) dubbed all of Wedge's lines.
nxyP TIL that a newlywed woman hiking on the Cook Inlet mud flats in Alaska got her leg stuck in the mud as the tide came in. Rescuers kept her alive using a hose as a breathing tube when the water rose past her head, until she lost the tube.
5VWOQ TIL that the first-ever recorded use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
R5lv7 TIL Calico cats are almost always female, but a male calico with a rare chimerism condition was banned from cat shows
lgna TIL Thai Police Officers who are guilty of committing minor transgressions such as coming late or parking at the wrong spot have to wear a bright pink HELLO KITTY armband for several days as punishment.