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

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a87Ey TIL Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, despite being 6'4", had a voice that was described as “a thin tenor, or rather falsetto, voice, almost as high-pitched as a boatswain's whistle.”
ADVNo TIL July 28, 1915 the US invaded and occupied Haiti. They moved the financial reserves to the United States and then rewrote Haiti’s Constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights.
b9bMN TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.
AXVa TIL Walt Disney’s father was unimpressed when his son took him on a tour of his new film studio until Walt pointed out that it could be converted into a hospital if his animation business fails
grXay TIL George Clooney is the nephew of José Ferrer, the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.