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TIL when Christine “Moose” McGlade showed up at the first audition for You Can’t Do That On Television, she had no intention of auditioning and was there as emotional support for a friend. Show creator Roger Price insisted she audition or leave. She decided to audition and was made the show's host.

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jjMv TIL the best paid sportsman of all-time was the Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Before retiring in 146 AD, Diocles had won 1,462 races, resulting in winning over 35,863,120 sesterces in prize-money. By today’s standards, that last figure would cash out to about $15 billion.
mxrYo TIL prior to 2003, if you changed wireless carriers, you would have to get a new phone number, since carriers were not required by law to transfer your phone number
509B TIL that Android was originally conceived as a camera operating system.
eZyk TIL in the U.S. it’s illegal for employers to tell employees not to talk to their co-workers about compensation
Zpmev TIL in 2021 Demi Lovato came out as non-binary, adopting the pronouns 'she/her' or 'they/them'