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TIL that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was one of the first cases in the US to prevent a specific ethnic group from entering the country

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7rAML TIL Bob Barker actually did his own stunts for Happy Gilmore, including the famous fight scene. Not only did he refuse to do the movie until he found out he won the fight, but he also studied Tang Soo Do karate under Chuck Norris for 8 years.
4nBX TIL Mike Myers and Dana Carvey did not speak for over a decade because Myers stole the character Dr. Evil from Carvey
4XnOa TIL full-time stagehands, the people responsible for moving and setting up equipment, at Carnegie Hall earn over $400,000 a year.
Bgr8K TIL that the Morse code at the beginning of the B-52’s song “Planet Claire” was a repeating message transmitted from a military radio station in Nova Scotia that translated to “Any and all allied warships, this is Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove…”
YpvZG TIL of Wolf Cave aka Susiluola, a cave in Finland claiming to have evidence of Neanderthals pre Ice Age. The only known evidence in Nordic countries.