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TIL that in the first South Park short "Jesus vs. Frosty" from 1992, Eric Cartman was named Kenny.

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0d8Wy TIL that the Super Bowl halftime dancers don't know about any special guests until the day of the performance
mxOPx TIL that Aretha Franklin required that she would be paid, in cash, prior to any performance, often carrying the money in a bag, on stage during the show.
YEn7 TIL Martin Luther King Jr. convinced actress Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to not quit her role on the original series of ‘Star Trek’ because he believes that showing a black woman work alongside white men would help achieve racial equality.
VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
R7DE8 TIL of "The Attack of the Dead Men" where after being hit with a wave of chlorine gas, 100 Russian soldiers coved in blood and half-blind, successfully launched a counter-attack against the advancing 7000 Germans, who fled at the sight of the "dead men walking".