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TIL Tim Burton and John Landis were puppeteers in the elaborate final scene of the 1979 Jim Henson classic film, The Muppet Movie.

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odG8 TIL Dr. Francis M. Fesmire won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how to cure the hiccups with rectal massage.
gNZb TIL former San Fransisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson was fined $1000 for playing with bright orange cleats. He claims he was punished “for having too much awesome on my feet.”
veOK TIL that in college, Theodor Seuss Geisel was caught drinking gin with his friends; as a result, his dean insisted he resign from the college magazine. To continue working on the magazine without the dean’s knowledge, he began signing his work with “Seuss,” which he later changed to “Dr. Seuss.”
9Yxrp TIL The Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest.
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