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TIL the title “Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” was a play words on the obscure 2001 documentary “Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy”

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ylDJ TIL while shooting a cop scene of “Homicide: Life on the Street” a man who robbed a drug store two blocks away surrendered to the cast. They cuffed him and waited for the real cops to come.
VM84D TIL Mozart wrote a Piano Sonata for Rose Cannabich, his 15 year old pupil. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of "a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness"
X0LA6 TIL that the first 35 NASA space shuttle astronauts were nicknamed TFNG. The official meaning was "Thirty-Five New Guys", but the real meaning was "The Fucking New Guy", military slang for newcomers to a unit.
JYOGk TIL an emordnilap (palindrome spelt backwards) is a word that can be read differently in reverse. ex. reward/drawer
mxQMR TIL That the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' created controversy when it was first published because many parents and people thought that the wild things looked too scary for children