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TIL When Issac Hayes terminated his contract with South Park claiming the show was intolerant, after the Scientology episode, creator Matt Stone stated “He never had a problem when we offended other religions till it was his own.”

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Eg6Od TIL Macaulay Culkin's real name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
MeNPB TIL that Orville Wright, the younger of the two Wright Brothers, expressed sadness about the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World War 2, stating “I once thought the aeroplane would end wars. I now wonder whether the aeroplane and the atomic bomb can do it.”
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