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TIL Peter Billingsley who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” also played the head elf in “Elf”.

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9jbB TIL “The Nightman Cometh,” the musical Charlie writes in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, was adapted into a live-action performance for two nights at the Troubadour theater in 2009. It starred the original cast and began with title cards reading “7:15, On a Friday, Philadelphia PA.”
6Wgw TIL: the word “thug” is derived from the Cult of Thuggee in India, who were hired assassins who killed 2,000,000 people and were only stopped when the British arrived with modern crime detection methods in the 1830’s
gM4k7 TIL Jodi Arias avoided getting executed because of a single holdout on the jury. The holdout was a woman who didn't believe in 'revenge' and left the other 11 jurors enraged.
P10pg TIL: Spilling as little as ONE gallon of diesel fuel/home heating oil or motor oil can contaminate up-to one MILLION gallons of formerly-clean drinking water!
X0OeR TIL that the country with the most youtube users is from india, with 467 million active users