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TIL that Radio City Music Hall in New York was originally intended to showcase vaudeville-style acts, but the initial opening was a disaster with singers and dancers dwarfed by the cavernous 6,200 seat hall. It then primarily became a movie theater and venue for large scale concerts and stage shows.

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w9rP TIL that in Season 8 Episode 2 of ‘The Fairly OddParents’, Timmy Turner is on fairy trial for keeping his first ever wish a secret. It’s revealed that the wish was for everyone to stop aging so he could have his fairies forever. When asked how long ago the wish was made, he guesses around 50 years.
PY6mw TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with religion and alchemy that he wrote far more words on them than he ever did about gravity or optics.
0d0Dp TIL in 2005, Joaquin Phoenix flipped his car. He heard someone tell him to "just relax". Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." The man replied, "No, you're not." The man then stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gasoline was leaking into the car cabin. The man was Werner Herzog.
b6g9N TIL that the Fair Labor Standards Act -- which prohibits child labor in the United States -- does not apply to agricultural jobs. An estimated 79,000 children produce about 25% of the picking harvest in USA.
kOMZe TIL the Ancient Greek poet Sotades made fun of Ptolemy II of Egypt for marrying his own sister. For this the poet was imprisoned. He briefly escaped before being recaptured on the island of Caunus, shut up in a leaden chest and thrown into the sea.