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TIL Sam Kinison and Roseanne Barr were the inspiration for two leading roles on TV's "Married...With Children" and both turned it down

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LJ0 TIL South Korea occasionally blasts KPOP music at North Korea
rOpe TIL that the rule that you can’t end a sentence w/ a preposition was created by a guy in order to discredit old playwrights (like Shakespeare) because no one wanted to watch his plays.
ANmGa TIL Amazon Fire Tablets used to include access to a free, live support tech advisor through a program called “Mayday.” The program was discontinued in 2018.
J1l6l TIL that the 400m world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk is the one and only sprinter in history to have run sub-10, sub-20, sub-31 and sub-44 at 100m, 200m, 300m and 400m respectively.
WkKkN TIL the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups worked for Hershey before starting his own company. Some sources claim H.B. Reese was laid off, others claim he quit.