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TIL that the movie 'The Blues Brothers' had a cocaine budget

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9wODG TIL Wayne Brady wrote a spoken word called: “A Piece by the Angriest Black Man in America (or, How I Learned to Forgive Myself for Being a Black Man in America)”
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0wxKM TIL Loofahs sponges are dried out fibres from a plant related to a squash
KVG9 TIL that the New Horizons space probe to Pluto is actually powered by Plutonium.
4k1ga TIL that while he was a young journalist in San Francisco, Mark Twain had suicidal thoughts, writing to his brother: “If I do not get out of debt in three months — pistols or poison for one — exit me.”