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TIL when Dr. Joyce Brothers was a contestant on The $64,000 Question the show’s sponsor Revlon tried to get rid of her because she didn’t wear makeup on air. She was asked increasingly obscure questions but was able to answer them all correctly and became the show’s first woman to win the top prize.

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5RDp TIL that there is a tiny house that you can have shipped to you in a box ready to go.
9LVG TIL that Lions used to be the world’s second most widespread land mammal, ranging from western Europe to India and in the Americas from Peru to the Yukon
dyKj TIL that the highest flying bird is the Ruppell’s vulture; one was injested by a jet at 37,000 feet.
eg9J TIL Roger Ebert said the 2004 film National Treasure was “so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.”
KOXea TIL that after screening the 1985 John Hughes film, The Breakfast Club, for the first time, studio executives stood up without saying a word. When the producer finally spoke, he said "It's a piece of shit. It's horrible. It's just a bunch of kids in school talking."