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TIL The Simpsons Movie Is Banned In Burma Necause The Characters Are “Too Yellow”

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oB6mr TIL that the Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful betting scheme played out at an Irish racetrack in 1975. The elaborate operation was eventually deemed legal, netting over 300K Irish pounds for Barney Curley and his team. Angry bookies paid out in over 100 bags of single bills.
WM6N TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.
kRR1 TIL a state in Italy existed successfully without any type of government for almost 400 years
e0Av4 TIL that as well as being a talented actor, athlete and overall role model, Terry Crews is also an amazing artist!
1aGPW TIL that SETI scientists believed that the chances for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life were far greater than initially expected, since Earth developed two intelligent species - humans, and dolphins.