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TIL that today is National Ass Day

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7rAWO TIL Ryan Gosling had no double for his pianist role in the La La Land movie. He learned to play the piano and all the musical compositions from scratch, in the 3 months before the movie was shot.
vP1NB TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.
wNB7 TIL that due to a law passed in 1953, it is illegal in Ohio to arrest a person on Sunday, on the Fourth of July, or on your way to a place of worship, unless the crime is a felony, treason, or is a breach of peace.
jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.
X5GP TIL before realizing his true potential in comedy, Will Ferrell worked as a teller at Wells Fargo; apparently he lost close to $600 in his first two days on the job