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TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.

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MenbA TIL Costco loses $40m a year on rotisserie chickens. A clear loss leader, they are 50% bigger than ones from other stores, and $1-$2 cheaper because it's '...how much a chicken should cost'. They sell over 60m of them a year.
R7WJ4 TIL - Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, was married to Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse.
8apwa TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand's marriage was morganatic, and so his wife could only be honored as royalty during military inspections, which he did many of out of love for his wife. He and his wife were eventually assassinated while making a military inspection, which started WWW1 (and led to WW2).
E9Pp TIL ~51% of the restaurants Chef Ramsay has visited on ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ have closed since his intervention.
AGwg TIL architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like a inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top ('base’) would be able to look down toward the bottom ('peak’) of the structure.