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TIL Burt Reynolds starred in a musical in 1975 that was such a disaster that the director had an apology printed in newspapers.

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Z08D TIL that the nerve cells of giant squid are the largest cells that have been discovered. These cells can as long as 39 feet.
W7d9B TIL Sonora Carver; one of the first female horse divers, continued horse diving for 11 more years after being blinded from hitting the water with open eyes off of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Horse diving was a stunt where a horse would be ridden off a 40-60 foot tower into a body of water.
a8WEL TIL that Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola"), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens and herds of cattle and horses
nlo Today I learned Stevies dad from “Malcolm in the Middle” voices Uncle Ruckus on “The Boondocks”
WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.