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TIL there has only ever been 167 featured cast members of Saturday Night Live

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d8RmB TIL in the original opening sequence of “The Simpsons”, Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63, which represented the monthly cost of raising a child at the time.
6YwJ TIL that a common mormon belief is that Bigfoot is actually Cain, killer of Abel.
JYA94 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England couldn't speak English and spent very little time in England.
MRV7 TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
rRpGe TIL that in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that credit card companies did not have to abide by state interest rate caps. It allowed them to relocate to states without rate caps and issue credit cards across the nation with whatever rate they wanted.