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TIL that Jon Stewart’s older brother, Larry Leibowitz, is COO of the NYSE.

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N7ge TIL: George Lucas was sure Star Wars was going to flop, so he made a friendly bet with Stephen Spielberg: That if Close Encounters of the Third Kind made more money than SW, he would get 2.5% of the profit for all time, and vice versa. Spielberg still gets enormous, grudging checks today.
A5Qg TIL - The phrases “no man is an island” and “for whom the bell tolls” both come from the same poem
mxQRY TIL that the story of"Cinderella" is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story
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vPEYr TIL although the U.S. Code says that burning is the preferred method to dispose of a Flag, people also do so via flag burial.