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TIL that in 1954, jazz legend Charles Mingus wrote a concise mail-order handbook for toilet training your cat

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KYKL6 TIL that Referees who officiate the final NFL Super Bowl also receive championship rings.
8W7a TIL: Upon seeing the movie “Pink Flamingos” Rodger Ebert said: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
LDdV TIL in 2005 Scientists found an individual nerve cell that fired only when subjects were shown pictures of Jennifer Aniston
DjAe TIL that because of “Hollywood accounting,” Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lost money, despite being in one of the highest grossing film franchises.
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.