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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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rNWnd TIL why the pool tables in Michael Jackson's Beat It video have no pockets. It's because the tables shown are used for a pocketless game called carom billiards.
nK0b TIL J.K. Rowling is quoted as saying “I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, ‘Ms Rowling, I’m so glad I’ve read these books because now I want to be a witch” when her books were accused of satanic themes.
akA TIL: The hand print of Nelson Mandela actually resembles the African continent.
d8JvQ TIL that software no longer being sold or supported is referred to as “Abandonware” and falls in a grey area regarding copyright, allowing sites like this to provide downloads for tons of nostalgic titles including Oregon Trail and the old Harry Potter games
M7ebA TIL of a laptop called the Persistence of Chaos which was sold for $1,345,000 in 2019 despite being unable to connect to the internet and being full of viruses.