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

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VBYnB TIL that the first libertarian mayor in the United States was a polygamist Mormon named Alex Joseph. After leaving the Republican Party, he ran for mayor of his commune Big Water, Utah as a Libertarian.
0gEL TIL a Silk Sawblade Was Used in the 6th Century to Cut Thin Slabs of Marble When Constructing the Hagia Sophia.
rNlNy TIL starfish (and relatives) are hydraulic and push pressurized water around inside their bodies to control their "feet"/move around
69dl7 TIL Disney's "The Three Caballeros" was part of an American propaganda program in the 1940s to foster better relations between the US and Latin America, under FDR's "Good Neighbor Policy".
yVoAa TIL Psycho (1960) set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre. Hitchock was initially against the music in the shower scene but the composer ignored his direction