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TIL The reason "Baywatch" filmed sequences in slow motion is because they were short on money to finish the shows

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xVe5b TIL that the Sphynx cat came about barely in the 1960s and originated in Canada when a domestic cat gave birth to a hairless kitten. It was then bred solely for its natural hairless trait.
epD0b TIL: Founding Father and author of the Bill of Rights James Madison stopped the Virginia Assembly from establishing Christianity as the state religion with the help of Thomas Jefferson.
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