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TIL that comedian Sid Caesar picked a writers' room of young unknown comics for his hit TV shows in the 50s- including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen

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5Y6vP TIL Kermit the Frog was awarded an honorary doctorate of Amphibious Letters on May 19, 1996, at Southampton College, New York, where he also gave a commencement speech. He is also the only "amphibian" to have had the honor of addressing the Oxford Union debating society.
K75w TIL Arkansas is the only state where rentals don’t have a warranty of habitability. So, landlords can knowingly rent dangerous or otherwise uninhabitable properties with no recourse for the renter.
wLgV1 TIL the albumen print used emulsion of (actual) egg whites and silver nitrate to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper.
rE41 TIL After numerous complaints about the sometimes vicious creatures, New York City authorities finally banned organ grinders’ monkeys from the streets in 1887.
7rwwM TIL the town of Two Egg, Florida has their own local monster, described as a ‘small Bigfoot’. His name is the Two Egg Stump-Jumper