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TIL Bill Hader once worked as an usher at a movie theater and was fired for spoiling the end of Titanic to noisy patrons.

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epmpE TIL the jigsaw puzzle was commercialized around 1760 by John Spilsbury. His design took world maps, and cut out the individual nations in order for them to be reassembled by students as a geographical teaching aid.
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