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TIL The stars in the Paramount logo honor the 22 actors and actresses put under contract in 1916 by film producer and founder Adolph Zukor

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N77mQ TIL Inbreeding is a humongous problem in the middle east. 70% of marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins, and roughly 50% of people in the 'Arab world' are 'inbred'.
QdQE TIL Sharon Stone, for many years, maintained that she had an IQ of 148 and was a member of Mensa. She admitted in 2002 that she was not, and had never been, a member of Mensa.
9Wlp TIL: It took 200,000 years to bring 1st billion people on Earth, 100 more years to bring 2nd billion and now we add 1 billion people to this planet every 12 years.
m1n7M TIL of the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act which disallows secretly giving out doctored market information so as to corner a market using false information.
9wxJG TIL Nick Offerman was originally up for another role in Parks and Recreation, Rashida Jones’ love interest Josh, who ended up turning into Mark Brendanawicz. Nick got turned down because he wasn’t “handsome” enough