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TIL that on her 56th birthday, Carol Burnette woke up to news that her friend and mentor Lucille Ball had died. Flowers arrived later with a note that said “Happy Birthday, Kid. Love Lucy”.

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lo6YA TIL Back in 2011, the travelling Picadilly Circus was scheduled to perform in Joplin, Missouri, until an EF-5 Tornado destroyed most of the city, rendering them unable to perform. As a result, the circus employees used their two adult elephants to help drag debris off the roads for first responders.
oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.
xV0r7 TIL Interesting Facts About The World's Oldest Intact Ship
Nw7N TIL that the reason all videos are subtitled on Netflix is because the National Association for the Deaf filed a class-action lawsuit against them in 2010.
lRxN TIL Brittany Murphy’s husband died of the exact same causes (anemia and pneumonia) two years after her, in the exact same house, with no connection to the deaths.