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TIL that book trailers are a thing and there are tens of thousands of them online

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0wZbR TIL that there was a store at Walt Disney World called "Jessica's" that only sold Jessica Rabbit merchandise
vMy7 TIL David Bowie was so messed up on hard drugs especially cocaine that he could not recall making the album “Station to Station.” When asked about the studio he recorded in bowie stated “I know it was in LA because I’ve read it was”.
xg91 TIL Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus has retired all but 11 elephants and will retire those 11 after a final show May 1st, 2016. The elephants will go to a Florida conservation where they help with cancer research, as they possess a special “P53 gene” which fights cancer.
x6y0g TIL the largest episode of anti-Asian violence in North America took place not in the United States, but in the city of Torreón, Mexico in 1911 when over 300 Mexican citizens of Chinese/Japanese descent were slaughtered by a local mob.
ZDXY TIL that an African American woman named Beulah Mae Donald won a $7,000,000 settlement from The United Klans of America in Alabama, thereby bankrupting the association.