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TIL Stalin imprisoned 200,000 people for telling jokes against the USSR

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KOwow TIL Ray Combs' final Family Feud he told a player that got 0 points "I've done this show for six years .. this is the first time I had a person that actually got no points and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, and made me feel like a man"
6Eey8 TIL The sun is white, but it can often appear yellow, orange or red through Earth's atmosphere due to atmospheric Rayleigh scattering
gMKd4 TIL that on the sitcom "NewsRadio", Ray Romano was originally cast as the electrician and handyman character Joe Garrelli but was let go after one rehearsal, and was replaced by Joe Rogan.
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