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TIL The writer of "That 70's Show" theme song gets $70 each time the show airs, and refers to it as "That $70 Show" .

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lolLA TIL Domino’s discontinued using the Noid as their mascot because a mentally ill man named Kenneth Lamar Noid thought the ads were a personal attack on him. In retaliation, he took two Domino’s employees hostage, demanded $100,000, a special-made pizza, and a salad. He later killed himself in 1995.
WywA TIL that in 1982 a journalist sent out word-for-word copies of the screenplay for “Casablanca” to every Hollywood film agency. Of the 85 that read it, 33 recognized it and only four made an offer for it. The other 48 rejected the script outright.
rRYwx TIL there is a living person still collecting a pension for Civil War service, though the war ended over 150 years ago.
PYLkw TIL of the term "Ag-gag". Anti-whistleblower laws passed by the states that make it illegal to film or photograph animal rights abuses on factory farms.
MekmA TIL that a young Irishman threw a message in a bottle from the sinking Titanic. He drowned. A year later, the bottle washed up on a beach — just a few miles from his mother’s home in Ireland.