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TIL ‘candlestick holders’ don’t exist. A 'candlestick’ is the holder of candles.

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p8J1b TIL the TV western series "Gunsmoke" ran for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. During that time it's lead character, Marshal Matt Dillon, managed to survive being shot 56 times, knocked unconscious 29 times, stabbed on three occasions, and poisoned once.
WkZjN TIL The Uto-Aztecan language family, to which the ancient and modern Aztec languages belong, was historically so widespread beyond the Aztec Empire that the language family has speakers as far north as Idaho
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PYBNG TIL During the filming of the 1953 film Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident. Comedy actor Peter Sellers, then not known internationally, but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub some of Bogart's lines while Bogart was unable to speak.