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TIL Carly Simon is an heiress of Simon & Schuster

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pYm98 TIL Ted Bundy briefly worked at a Suicide Hotline Crisis Center
opro TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
R5p0Q TIL the Diner's Club was the first company to establish the financial service of issuing travel and entertainment credit cards as a viable business model
Q4RM TIL that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. This effect is independent of divorce, southerness, poverty, and gun availability.
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus