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TIL that a man successfully “foreclosed” on a Wells Fargo office because they failed to respond to his letters of inquiry and then ignored his $1,000 small claims judgement.

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loAK7 TIL: The Truman Show was inspired from a Twilight Zone episode that has many of the same elements
X8XP TIL first published in 1993, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world.
AGVa TIL the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade originally featured live animals from the Central Park Zoo, but they occasionally roared and scared children, so they were replaced with balloons.
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KOWBa TIL that early in his stand-up career Steve Martin once took the entire audience next door to a McDonald's and ordered 300 hamburgers only to then change the order to 'one small fries'