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TIL Jonah Hill holds the record for cursing on screen putting Samuel L. Jackson in second place.

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wodgW TIL about the great African American migration. Between 1910 and 1970, 6 million black Americans moved out of the rural south to urban northeast, Midwest, and west due to segregation and discrimination in the south.
gAQW TIL penguins were found in the arctic, but only from 1936-1949. They were introduced to replace the great auk, which had been hunted to extinction. The penguins survived the conditions well, but were also hunted to extinction. One was beaten to death by a local woman, whom mistook it for a demon.
8l5X TIL: Writer/Director Bob Clark refused to make a sequel to Porky’s unless the studio agreed to let him make a vanity project “A Christmas Story” with a budget of only $4,000,000.
LBNQ TIL that coffee release CO2 for a few weeks after it is roasted, so most coffee bags have a hole to let air out so that the bags don’t explode from degassing. For K cups they allow the coffee to degas completely before packaging, thus making it stale.
9vGQ TIL that before going on to be in Rage Against the Machine, guitarist Tom Morello was a male stripper.