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TIL Dolly Parton co-owns one of the production companies that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

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WkMv4 TIL Smoking Areas existed in Public High Schools back in the 1980’s. Students could smoke cigarettes on school grounds between classes in designated lounges
b6XOp Today I learned that the liquid breathing technology used in the Movie Abyss (1989) is real and the Rats used during filming were actually breathing it in the shots.
woLwo TIL When F. Scott Fitzgerald was dying of alcoholism he was largely forgotten by the public and destitute. He would get drunk and accost strangers on the street and say "I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"
jNaQE TIL in 1959, some of Volkswagen's cars made in that year had a built-in coffee maker on its dashboard
6EnYX TIL that a Chinese billionaire sparked social backlash by purchasing a rare 500 year old tea cup for 38 million dollars, and then drinking tea out of it. To appease people angered by his using it, Liu Yiqian said “I’m not going to use it ever day.”