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TIL The Director of the Truman Show had the idea of installing a video camera in every theater where the movie played and having the projectionist cut from the film to the video of the audience

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XD8r TIL Saint Lawrence was martyred by being roasted to death on a gridiron. Supposedly, after roasting over a hot fire for a while he said, “I am done on this side; you may turn me over now”. The Church made him the patron saint of chefs and comedians.
ADVBw TIL scientists give funny names to genetically variant fruit flies; (Ken & Barbie): flies that fail to develop external genitalia, (Maggie): Flies that fail to develop past a certain stage & are named after Maggie from the Simpsons, (Cheap Date): A fly that expresses high sensitivity to alcohol.
d8vV7 TIL of fox saboteurs, people who disrupt illegal fox hunts in the UK!
oBJ8K TIL John D. Rockerfeller once had an apprenticeship making $16 per month & his dream as a kid was to make $100,000. His personal fortune ended up being $1.4 billion by 1937 which makes him the wealthiest person in recent history.
rNW5y TIL Michael Peterson AKA Charles Bronson once let his hostage go because the hostage farted in front of him and he was disgusted by it.