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TIL that when Vincent Price agreed to lend his voice to "Thriller," he had to choose between a share of the album's profits or a flat fee of $20,000. He chose the latter.

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NnoQ TIL That the Dark Film Noir/Art Deco feel to ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ was due to the use of black paper with light colours for animation, instead of the industry standard of dark colours on white paper.
JYkDQ TIL during the 2014 Groundhog Day festival, New York mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the Staten Island Zoo's weather-predicting groundhog on its head, killing it -- which was then covered up by zoo officials who claimed Staten Island Chuck had "died of natural causes"
MeMW7 TIL the scene in 'The Breakfast Club' in which all characters sit in a circle on the floor of the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. John Hughes told them all to ad-lib.
8a9OZ TIL George Washington “understood very clearly that everything he did as the first president of the United States would be watched by nations abroad and by people at home, and would set a precedent.” According to historians, Washington’s “finest moment” was leaving after two terms
PxJe TIL in 1962, at the University of Texas at Austin, Janis Joplin was voted “ugliest man on campus”