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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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kOKp4 TIL Smokey and the Bandit was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie
kJ1Yg Til in the original Charlie and the chocolate factory ran into controversy with the NAACP over its depictions of Oompa-Loompas as being of "black pygmy descent" with an illustration to go along t after hearing the criticism Dahl decided to change it to be more fantastical.
dD48K TIL rocket scientists call explosions a Rapid Unscheduled Dissasembly (RUD)
MNe0 TIL in 2010 2/3rds of all gun deaths in the U.S. were from suicide.
LJV9 TIL: 129 years ago today Nellie Bly went undercover at a lunatic asylum to uncover the truth about how people were begin treated