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TIL National Lampoon’s Vacation original ending screened so poorly that 4 months after filming wrapped, they rewrote the ending, hired John Candy, and filmed the sequence at Wally World

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Yp49B TIL about Carles Recio, who showed up to work only to clock in & out for over a decade, spending his free time running a male brothel & drawing erotic comics.
rVP4 TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.
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M7E5B TIL The Old Fisherman, painted in 1902 by Tivadar Kosztka, is an oddly asymmetrical piece. It was discovered the painting contains two hidden images. Mirroring the left or the right side, two symmetrical images are created- a Godly man praying in nature, or the Devil in an industrialized landscape.