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TIL the writers of In Living Color put decoy sketches in the script packets that were given to the Fox execs in order to preoccupy the censor enough to allow them to get away other material.

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e0ndD TIL that Pablo Picasso went on trial for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre
nWBpd TIL of the Tanana River Bridge (Railroad bridge), Alaska's longest bridge was completed in 2014 at a cost of $187M (tax dollars). It connects nothing, there is no railroad on either side.
jNQAn TIL The year that Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien, died is rather unique. He died in 1973, that number may sound familiar: 1 ring to rule them all, 9 rings for men, 7 rings for the dwarves, and 3 rings for the elves!
mx7RP TIL Don Featherstone, creator of the famous plastic Pink Garden Flamingo, also wore matching outfits with his wife every single day for 35 years
lo5pG TIL at the start of the 1539 siege of Vienna by the Ottomans, their leader, Suleiman I, was so sure of his victory that he boasted that he would be having breakfast in Vienna cathedral within 14 days. 14 days later, the Austrians sent him a letter, telling him his breakfast was getting cold.