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TIL “Chumlee” is paid $25,000 per episode of Pawn Stars.

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m1RWv TIL in 1872, New Orleans businessmen created Rex, the King of Carnival, for the first daytime Mardi Gras parade. To honor visiting Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff, they adopted his family colors—purple (justice), green (faith), and gold (power)—as Carnival’s official colors.
vP8dD TIL the final line of Willy Wonka was originally written as Grandpa Joe yelling, 'Yippee!' The director hated it so much, he phoned up the screenwriter who was vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods and forced him to come up with a better line right on the spot as they were filming the ending.
yamX TIL two mines detonated on the first day of the Battle of the Somme were apparently so loud that the blasts were heard in London, nearly 200 miles away.
kOl7e Today I learned that Ring Around the Rosie is most likely not about the Great Plague.
BrNgk TIL NASA's plan to dispose of corpses in space is to freeze them in the airlock and then violently shake the body with a robotic arm until it turns to space dust.