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TIL Will Smith only agreed to be in the Fresh Prince of Bell-Air so he could pay off his $2.8 million debt to the IRS.

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BANy TIL Lalibela, Ethiopia is home to 11 monolithic churches carved out of mountains and connected by tunnels. The churches’ roofs are at ground level to make them invisible to raiders from a distance.
nkyY TIL Jaimee Foxworth who played the youngest Winslow on the show “Family Matters” (Judy) was written out of the show with no explanation after asking for a raise. She went on to star in porn under the name “Crave”
D1YAV TIL that in 1997, Green Day started a riot from one of their concerts at Tower Records in Manhattan after being criticized that they lost their "punk edge"
b9ew4 TIL It was comic strip character Dick Tracy's wrist radio that inspired Martin Cooper of Motorola to conceive of the first portable cellular phone in 1973. This led to the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
XV4X TIL the word “poppycock” comes from the Dutch word poppekak, which literally translates to “as fine as doll shit”.