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TIL: Randy Quaid (National Lampoon’s Cousin Eddy) is a wanted felon

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Ko9a TIL the phrase to ‘blow a raspberry’ is derived from cockney rhyming slang in which you rhyme your desired word (fart) with another word that is used in a sensible phrase (raspberry tart), then use the non-rhyming word for the original word (raspberry=fart).
wo5E TIL There is a time capsule buried in 1968 in Amarillo Texas containing the passbook to a bank account with a $10 deposit, expected to be worth $1 quadrillion when it is opened in 2968.
xZPB TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov’t didn’t burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn’t want to be offended
5YdVn TIL that Steven Spielberg thought John Williams was joking the first time he played the JAWS theme for him.
e0d5J TIL that in North Korea men may pick between 1 of 15 approved hair styles, none of which resemble Kim Jung Un's iconic haircut.