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TIL Jay Leno has never touched a dime of his ‘Tonight Show’ money

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VBp6D TIL in the year 1840, 95 years before the founding of AA, there was a group called The Washingtonians who believed in the power of one alcoholic helping another alcoholic recover. At its peak, the group had more than 600,000 members but drifted from its primary purpose and entirely dissapeared.
MeB9V TIL Ken Osmond was not the original Eddie Haskell. The original was another child actor whose parents wanted him to go to high school and college instead of being a full-time child actor. Ironically Osmond grew up to be a cop while the original still enjoys a lucrative career in show business.
16gAr TIL Porters bringing tourists up 5,895m high Mt Kilimanjaro experience health issues caused by high altitude sickness. Their wages are fixed at $10 a day (some paid $6), while carrying 20 kilograms of baggage and camping gearing on the head
61Dw TIL: There is a word for the day after tomorrow: Overmorrow
nW7vB TIL that Ramón Arellano Félix of the Tijuana Cartel was jokingly harassed on the streets of Hollywood for a segment for the David Letterman Show.