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TIL Hugh Hefner was tried on obscenity charges in Chicago in 1963, but the jury was hung.

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4XWG5 TIL about the Suicide Squad a group of 20 New Zealand Legislative Councillors whom in 1950 were appointed by the then NZ Prime Minister to vote the Upper house of Parliament out of existence thus making themselves redundant.
GAPpE TIL actor John Larroquette was the uncredited narrator of the prologue to the 1974 horror movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In lieu of cash, he was paid by the Director Tobe Hooper in Marijuana.
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