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TIL that America’s longest married couple (John Betar, 102 and Ann Betar, 98) have been married for almost 82 years now and have 16 great granchildren

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0w9wN TIL Madame Tussaud, of Wax Museum fame, was an artist in the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make wax death masks of both of their faces immediately after they were guillotined.
0d4yy TIL Harry Belafonte negotiated a pay-or-play contract in 1959. When network executives said "we can have black folks on TV, we can have white folks on TV. We can't have them together. You have to choose." Belafonte answered "No, but you still have to pay me."
VPBG TIL that Exercise Tiger, a US rehearsal for the D-Day landings in 1944, claimed the lives of at least 749 US soldiers, after a live-fire artillery salvo accidentally hit troops landing on the beaches, and subsequent attacks by German E-boats sank two US ships, and damaged a further 2.
neXZr TIL the 1993 film Philadelphia, the story of a man who was discriminated against due to having AIDS, was itself subject of a lawsuit. The family of the late Geoffrey Bowers sued, claiming that the film heavily borrowed from the story of his own lawsuit without giving him compensation or credit.
X0POP TIL the song "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" has a second verse that includes the n-word