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TIL Terry "Toto" the Terrier dog from Wizard of Oz made $125/week, more then any Munchkins on set

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jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.
b9LDN TIL: Zoot Suit Riots were a series of anti-Mexican youth riots in Los Angeles that happened in 1943. The suits worn were seen as unpatriotic because of the amount of fabric used, and later became prohibited during the Second World War because of their wastefulness of cloth.
p8DnN TIL that a Brontosaurus skull has never been found.
m11RE TIL Stored fresh vegetables have lower vitamin C content than frozen ones.
6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.