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TIL the voice of Maude Flanders requested a $4000 raise to cover increasing commute costs, but FOX only offered $150 instead. This dispute is what led to Maude being killed off

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4dQJ TIL Yawning is not contagious for children with Autism due to the inattention to facial cues rather than lack of empathy.
j6APR TIL that Cuba have only cashed 1 cheque that America have sent them for the lease for the land that Guantanamo Bay Naval Base sits on since 1959.
JYdoQ TIL Director Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with The Magnificent Seven, the American adaptation of his own film, Seven Samurai, that he presented director John Sturges with a sword
Z8Blp TIL that when Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Academy Award (for her performance in "Gone with the Wind") in 1940, she was seated at a segregated table at the side of the room
awVRN TIL an attempted assassin armed with two pistols had them both misfire and the very not assassinated President Andrew Jackson beat him with a cane