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TIL Pat Sajak admitted that the Wheel of Fortune took so long to film that he and Vanna used to sneak off the set for margaritas at a nearby bar. He and Vanna would have “two to six” margaritas before returning to the set, where they would “have trouble recognizing the alphabet”.

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GYg9E TIL: Benjamin Franklin was the originator of raising taxes to pay for lower income families to do public service for a wage. City sweepers were the original public service job of the 1700s.
nWBNr TIL that Jerry Lewis’ unreleased 1972 film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’, a controversial film about a clown in a Nazi camp, can now be screened in accordance with Lewis’ wishes. Lewis gave an incomplete copy to the Library of Congress on the condition that it couldn’t be screened before June 2024.
Egr6p TIL there is a registry for clowns (no not that one). Unique clown face designs are registered - on an egg.
YpYxG TIL that during the UK general election of 1880, a well-presented book about one of the candidates was widely circulated, named "Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith". Spoiler alert, it contained 32 empty pages.
wM8M TIL The first mention of Muhammad in the West comes from a discussion between Byzantine Christian and Jew written shortly after Muhammad’s death in 632. It says,“He is deceiving. For do prophets come with sword and chariot?You will discover nothing true from the said prophet except human bloodshed”