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TIL Jon Stewart’s salary is over 3x higher than Stephen Colbert’s

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vP0kR TIL that Otis Redding considered Bob Dylan to be his favorite singer, calling him ‘the greatest.' At one point, Bob personally offered Otis a song to record, but the cover never happened. As Otis put it, 'I didn’t do it because I just didn’t feel it. Mind you, I dig his work like mad.'"
OGkke TIL-On Halloween 1974, 20th Century Fox released 'Phantom of the Paradise', a campy musical comedy lampooning the tropes and conventions of the horror genre. A year later, the same studio released 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', another campy musical comedy lampooning the same tropes & conventions.
yQ96M TIL that there is an asteroid named after the fictional spy, James Bond (9007 James Bond)
xl8b TIL that the word “pupil” meaning the part of the eye, comes from the latin word for doll (pupa / pupilla) since you can see a miniature version of yourself when looking into someones eyes.
GAkRQ TIL: “His Master’s Voice” was originally a painting by an artist of his later brother’s dog Nipper (so named because he’d nip people’s ankles). He also would listen intently to a recording of his dead master’s voice.