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TIL that Andrew Lloyd Webber so so 'emotionally damaged' after seeing the 2019 adaptation of his musical 'Cats', he bought himself a dog.

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9wlLX TIL that the official motto of Fall River, Massachusetts was ‘We’ll Try’ from 1843-2017.
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