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TIL you pay $30,000 to have your star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

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epwx4 TIL that in 2002, after incumbent Minnesota Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chose former VP Walter Mondale to replace Wellstone a week before the election. This marked Mondale's return to politics after 22 years, losing with 47% of the vote
WkAeY TIL There was a study that concluded that watching Keeping up with the Kardashians likely makes you a worse person. “When considered together with my study, it suggests that exposure to the message in this materialistic media can inhibit peoples’ altruism, empathy and concern for the community."
OXm6 TIL Johnny Cash voice recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament, and is available to listen to.
Lkvg0 TIL that the first submarine was propelled by oars.
Kj04 TIL: Scott Adams (Dilbert) once wore “a wig and false mustache, [and] successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever”.“