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TIL the city of Los Angeles pays more for parking enforcement/writing tickets than the parking tickets themselves actually generate in revenue for the city.

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JreB TIL ‘Birdman’ actor Michael Keaton had to change his name because the Screen Actors Guild would not allow him to use his birth name “Michael Douglas”
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