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TIL Korn band made an appearance in the Monk show (I love both, btw)

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b957N TIL about the 1991 "Great Butter Fire" which burned for 8 days (due to water having little effect on the fire), had flames 300ft high, and destroyed 50 million pounds of food.
rRoV1 TIL On “Win Ben Stein's Money,” money won by contestants was paid by the producers. Money left over at the end of a season was given to Stein. If the total amount paid out exceeded that budget, the production company paid the excess so Stein was never in any danger of losing his own money.
yVydl TIL: In April this year, Dubai once again broke the record for the most expensive license plate in the world, when "7" was sold for $15 million at auction. Some countries such as Hong Kong (where "R" and "W" were $3 million) auction off rare license plate numbers to the wealthy. In the US, it's $60.
8aRR4 TIL Southwest Airlines flew a plane full of puppies to help them escape from Hurricane Harvey
E1bD7 TIL that Ray Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 is not about government censorship but about social censorship where the people are the culprit.