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TIL Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, and Albert Brooks all went to high school together

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QNEvE TIL The Page Act of 1875 barred entry of Asian immigrants suspected of entering the US involuntarily or for sex work. In practice, the law targeted Chinese women by appealing to a common stereotype that they were prostitutes and dangerous to the institution of marriage.
BrlZD TIL Michael Jackson planned an ultimately-cancelled Las Vegas residency in 2005, and among one of the plans was a 50-foot MJ robot that would roam the Nevada desert visible to tourists entering from their airport and was meant to advertise his show
0j0R TIL Missouri is the cruel Puppy Mill Factory capital of the U.S.
VABG TIL, the AAA (U.S. auto club) lobbies government AGAINST mass transit, alternative fuels, and other methods
P17AE TIL that the "City" of "Rancho Cucamonga" in the US State of California; is believed to be named after a ~historically "local" Native American term/phrase which implied the designation of; a "Sandy Place", a "Place of Many Springs", or, of, "The Place of the Light over the Mountain".