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TIL Judy Garland received $35 a week for her role in the Wizard of Oz. Toto, the famous dog, received $125.

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4XM0N TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General was forced to resign because she said she wasn't opposed to teaching students about masturbation in sex education, and religious conservatives were outraged
4XeK6 TIL During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy learned that a group of Kenyan students who had won scholarships to study at American universities didn't have enough funds to come. When Eisenhower refused to intervene, JFK arranged to have the Kennedy family foundation underwrite their travel
rG84 TIL Jermaine Jackson and his younger brother Randy, both have multiple children with the same woman, Jermaine’s wife.
RLo4 TIL there was a thoroughbred racehorse with a series of significant wins in the late eighteenth century named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os.
aNJb TIL that Todd Howard is one of the only developers to create four Game of the Year winners in a row with Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim