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TIL that Dolly Parton lost a Dolly lookalike contest. The winner was a man.

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wo0wP TIL in the late 90's Sony hired George A. Romero to write and direct a live action Resident Evil movie but was fired because Capcom didn't like his script.
4XNjJ TIL Walt Disney's surviving family has largely been torn apart by a vicious legal battle over the $400 million Disney fortune, which led to newspapers calling them "not the happiest family on Earth."
4XLRR TIL Anglo-Saxon courts never attempted to unearth the facts in a case, it was up to each party to get as many people as possible to swear in their favor since it was assumed that any person of good standing would be able to find enough people to swear to their innocence to bolster their case.
dBb9 TIL in 1952 Kent sold cigarettes with an asbestos filter claiming it was healthier than regular smoking
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