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TIL that Oprah was pregnant at 14 years old

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OGEva TIL that major American ballet companies generate roughly 40% of their annual ticket sale revenues from repeated performances of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" around Christmas.
OoWBY TIL John Candy was paid only $414 for his role in Home Alone. He was only available for 1 day, and his scenes took 23 hours to shoot.
nWn8B TIL To get a convincing performance out of the boy that played the kidnapped child in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg&Co. wore gorilla and clown costumes off-camera to surprise him, and slowly opened presents to get his wide-eyed amazed reaction to seeing aliens in his kitchen.
9YKpB TIL Saturn spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. Seriously, you see this by eye when you look at a picture of Saturn; it looks like it was squished. It’s the rapid spinning that’s squishing it, making the equator bulge.
7rDJP TIL that after the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth, they were quarantined for 3 weeks in fear of "lunar plague".