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TIL The Addams Family originally began as a New Yorker cartoon

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9Y9Vp TIL that OutKast's "Ms. Jackson," heavily inspired by Andre 3000 and Erykah Badu's former relationship, was a sore spot for Badu--but her mother, Kolleen Gipson, loved it so much that she bought a "MSJACKSON" vanity license plate
byXE TIL that because of the urban myth in the ‘60s and '70s that trick-or-treaters were given candy apples with razor blades in them, hospitals offered free x-rays for any candy apple given to children during the Halloween season.
4b0X TIL during the Siege of Baghdad, The Grand Library of Baghdad, containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed along with the House of Wisdom. The Tigris waters ran black with ink from the big quantities of books flung into the river
9WP7 TIL that the Normandy beach landing scene in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan cost $12Million alone, employed use of over 1,500 extras and has been rated ‘the best battle scene of all time’ by Empire magazine
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