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TIL: Joan and Melissa played themselves in the 1994 biopic "Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story."

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R7bl6 TIL flu season is in the winter because the virus is more stable when the air is colder and drier. It was proven in an experiment exposing guinea pigs the flu in various temperatures and humidity.
VP80 TIL of a 3000 year old ball game in mexico where the losers were sacrificed to the gods; it is now being revived.
d87yK TIL when "Sleepless in Seattle" opened in 1993, TriStar Pictures got an average of 25-30 calls a day from viewers demanding to know about Tom Hanks' tiramisu reference. When told it was just food; a lot of the callers didn't believe it, others sounded a little disappointed & some just went 'no way.'
xV9Eb TIL that Proportional to its population, Alaska has produced the most Serial killers at 15.65 serial killings per one million inhabitants.
WkPYB TIL it has been established so far that 928 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex (878 men and 50 women). For 196 prisoners the escape finished with success and the majority of them lived to see the end of the war.