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TIL Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent, just an 800 number that you call and leave a voicemail pitching your movie.

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X09MD TIL it's unclear how the Mexicas were renamed the Aztecs. The term ‘Aztec’ has no very precise meaning.
VMAWQ TIL --Christmas 2013 more than 250 passengers on Calgary-bound flights were part of a "Christmas miracle" done by WestJet. Santa Claus appeared on life-size screens at boarding gates and asked passengers what they wanted for Christmas. When the planes landed the gifts were on the baggage carousel.
pYPbZ TIL of the Arthurian Knight Feirefiz, brother of Parzival. His mother was a Moorish Queen and his skin is described as being like a Magpie, both black and white.
RYw7 TIL that Hitler and Göring already had lists of communists to be arrested long before the 1933 Reichstag fire.
5VDQp TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").