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TIL that Mary Had A Little Lamb has an extended version which touchingly promotes kindness to animals

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x6lYB TIL Betty White was nominated in the 1st Emmy category for female performers in 1950, 1 of the first women to have full creative control of her own TV show, while she was still living at home with her parents, the1st woman to host her own talk show and 1st woman to win an Emmy for game show hosting
OKo4 TIL that Spanish is Louis C.K.’s first language. He began to learn English when he moved to the U.S. at age seven
b6vEE TIL that MLK had a 75% disapproval rating when he died, largely due to White disapproval over his views on fixing economic injustice
woJD6 TIL that in the 1960s Coca-Cola opened an office in Los Angeles to provide vintage Coke bottles and signs for movies.
jNWrR TIL Victor Hugo's father was a general in Napoleon's army. Victor's 1st novel was published when he was only 20 and earned him a royal pension from King Louis XVIII. It then took him a full 17 years to write Les Misérables.