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TIL Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live because an NBC executive ordered him to lay off jokes targeting his buddy, O.J. Simpson & instead Macdonald did many more. When Simpson was acquitted, Macdonald opened with: “Well, it’s official: Murder is now legal in the state of California."

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Me0X0 TIL that the parents of Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist killed in a bus crash in 1986 at the age of 24, have been quietly donating his royalties to the music program of his former high school ever since.
WwV8 TIL men’s hesitance towards promiscuous women (in considering a meaningful relationship) is not based on the woman’s previous sexual behavior itself, but on the fear of being fooled and taken advantage of.
awRnJ TIL that an owl’s eye color tells you when they are most active. Dark eyes mean most active at right, orange eyes mean most active at dusk and dawn, and yellow eyes mean most active during the day..
wL88J TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, final leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991, is still alive. He's 87 and just wrote an editorial for the New York Times.
Oo8yR TIL that Kingdom Hearts began as a conversation between two Square Enix producers who joked that the only way they can design a game that can surpass Super Mario in recognition is to use Disney characters. This conversation was overheard by none other than Tetsuya Nomura.