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TIL the character in the 1986 TV special Garfield in Paradise that could translate for everyone was named Pigeon.

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5YkRr TIL about the Journal of Universal Rejection, an academic publication where all submissions, regardless of quality, are rejected.
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be50 TIL that minutes after John Lennon was shot, Howard Cosell fought fellow commentator Frank Gifford to interrupt ABC’s Monday Night Football and announce the news to their live TV audience.
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69dnJ TIL about the My Way Killings. Since 1998, 12 people have been murdered in karaoke bars in the Philippines for singing Frank Sinatra's, My Way and no-one really knows why.