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TIL in 1973, Johnny Carson made a joke during his opening monologue of The Tonight Show about an upcoming toilet paper shortage. Although meant to be a joke, the announcement caused a nation-wide panic that created an actual toilet paper shortage.

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1aoX8 TIL that director Stanley Kubrick was once chased off the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey by one of his own stuntmen
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