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TIL: The Wizard of Oz received one negative review, from the New Yorker, whose film critic despised the film's "Vulgarity [of] raw, eye-straining Technicolor" and "Singer Midgets"

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Y70bP TIL Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism.
O9la TIL Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century mechanical toy created for the Indian king, Tipu. It compromised of a tiger savaging a near life-size European man who emitted a wailing sound from his mouth.The king frequently amused himself with this representation of victory over the English.
5VWKD TIL that the English town of Washington, Tyne and Wear celebrates the Fourth of July as it's the ancestral home of the Washington family
BEMe TIL that both Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) are only an Oscar away from being EGOT winners (EGOT = Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)
vPKR8 TIL that Jimmie Davis, the Country Music Star who co-wrote the song "You Are My Sunshine", also served as Governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964