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TIL the "world's most photographed tree," the Lone Cypress at Pebble Beach in California, is held up by wires and cement

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R5bx4 TIL that NBC will become the first "Big Three" network to not offer a soap opera in its on-air programming on September 12, 2022, when it will send "Days of Our Lives" exclusively to Peacock. The show has aired nearly every weekday since November 8th, 1965 and has over 14,000 episodes.
69GgQ TIL that in World War II and the Vietnam War, the US military issued “Life Barter Kits” to its pilots and paratroopers.
kJ41B TIL While filming "Orca" actor Richard Harris read a tabloid magazine that photographed his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He wanted to stop filming, fly to Malibu and kill them both. Harris relented when he got into a brawl with the film's screenwriter and gave him a black eye.
YxMr TIL in David Fincher’s thriller Se7en, Kevin Spacey refused billing on the film, fearing that it might compromise the ending if audiences were waiting for him to appear.
BgRek TIL that Viggo Mortensen (LOTR Aragorn) released an experimental music album called Pandemoniumfromamerica which he dedicated to Noam Chomsky.