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TIL Terry from 'Wayne's World' is also Tobias Beecher from 'Oz.'

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rjYd TIL lobsters used to be food for slaves and was used as fertilizer and fish bait. But that changed in the mid 1800s with the invention of canned food and railway transportation. Canned lobster became popular enough that people took trips to the coast for fresh lobster.
eplL4 TIL that Jane Pierce, the wife of President Franklin Pierce, was so heartbroken at the loss of their son, Benjamin, that for nearly two years, she remained in the upstairs living quarters of the White House, spending her days writing letters to her dead son.
Y7vXG TIL Stephen King wrote The Running Man in a single week. This is in contrast to his normal 2,000-word or 10-page daily output, so that writing a novel normally takes him approximately 3 months.
LkBQZ TIL in 2007 police seized a photo of two nude children from Elton John's art collection as part of a child pornography investigation
E5lp TIL The town of Dalhart, Texas is closer to 6 other state capitals than it is to Texas’s state capital.