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TIL Britney Spears’ father has a permanent conservatorship on her daughter, which is usually reserved for the severely mentally ill. Britney has reportedly stated that she really wants to quit the show business, but she can’t make any personal or financial decisions and is forced to continue.

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meyY TIL the writer and producer of the PBS show “Ghostwriter” had planned to reveal Ghostwriter to be a murdered runaway slave during the Civil War. He was killed by slave catchers and their dogs as he was teaching other runaway slaves how to read in the woods.
VM1mZ TIL: Dr. King's mother was also shot to death after him, while she was in Ebenezer Baptist Church
KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
X0DO8 TIL about an engineer who made a motorcycle out of his wrecked car to escape the desert
rWOW TIL That Bruce Willis appeared in Friends For Free Because He Lost A Bet With Matthew Perry(Chandler)