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b6RGp TIL that the state of Iowa used to have an even 100 counties until Bancroft county was abolished in 1857 and joined Kossuth county, thus making it the largest county in the state. Since then, two attempts at recreating the county have failed, leaving Iowa a state of 99 counties.
d8XeK TIL Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Moorehouse for holding up the board of trustees, including MLK Sr., at gunpoint until they agreed to hire more black staff. His mother, afraid of him becoming a POI for the FBI, sent him to LA where he began acting.
16gZr TIL: Movie trailer voiceover legend Don LaFontaine’s last role was for the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Chronicles of Meap" in which he said in his final line: "In a world... There, I said it. Happy?"
yVrgM TIL that plasma used to cut steel plate is hotter than the surface of the sun.
kEr7 TIL of the “Well to Hell” hoax, where it was reported than a group of Russian engineers (while drilling into the ground) broke into Hell, and screams of the damned could be heard. The Trinity Broadcasting Network ran with the story and claimed it proved the existence of Hell.