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TIL that Dolly Parton and her husband of 50 years have no children of their own.

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ANmml TIL that the sunlight that shines through the Moon’s mountains and valleys just before and after a total or annual solar eclipse, creating a string of bright, shimmering points of light along its edge is a phenomenon called Baily’s beads or the diamond ring effect.
oBeDE TIL Danny Devito has a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth called Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia. MED causes short stature in adults, short arms and legs, joint pain, deformities in the hands, feet and spine and early osteoarthritis.
7yPO TIL On the set of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP into the soup that James Cameron and other crew members ate, sending more than 50 people to the hospital.
8GO8 TIL the movie “Space Jam” is technically a sequel to a 1993 Nike commercial.
6mEw TIL in 1993, The Barbie Liberation Organization challenged gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of hundreds of Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and ‘reverse shoplifting’ them back into stores. Barbies would yell, “Eat lead, Cobra!” while G.I. Joes would ask, “Want to go shopping?”.