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TIL that Margaret Cho was rejected by a producer on her show All American Girl. Still heart broken, she looked him up 17 years later to find out that he had bludgeoned his wife to death and put her in his attic where she partially mummified. She wrote a song about him.

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epMXE TIL that there was a scene in the script for "The Truman Show" that showed a partially-constructed set for a Fijian island, complete with a fake airport and fake airplane, and that Truman very nearly made it there when he was trying to escape town.
8aRaK TIL that Star Wars was one of the first films selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in 1989, but it has yet to receive an archival print of the original film. George Lucas tried to submit a "Special Edition" print in 1997, but it was rejected due to its alterations of the 1977 print.
wL01M TIL that cleaning a cat's litter box can get you Toxoplasmosis if the cat is infected. While pregnant, it can cause your baby to be born with cerebral palsy, seizures, and mental retardation.
XY9R TIL: Franklin D. Roosevelt once accidentally walked in on a naked Winston Churchill. When Roosevelt apologized, Churchill replied: “The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.”
YQGW TIL beneath the streets of LA is a complex network of pedestrian tunnels that stretch several blocks. They’ve been used for secret transportation of mobsters, murderers and more than a billion dollars in cash; designated as fallout shelters and homeless shelters and used as backdrops for movies.