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TIL that Jack Paar walked off "The Tonight Show" during a live recording after censors cut a joke about a water closet the previous night

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R75r8 Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in distant, unreachable towns and hamlets. In the United States alone, it is estimated that between 17 and 21 million people dread that date to the extent that it can be officially classified as a phobia.
epKZD [TIL] The Province of Canada moved its capital six times between 1841-1867 before permanently locating to Ottawa in 1865. Kingston (Ontario) was first, Quebec City and Toronto both hosted it twice and Montreal once (until the buildings were burnt down in riots in 1849).
91QM TIL that the Romans substituted real criminals into plays for punishment, so if a character died in the play’s story or plot, a real criminal would die on stage.
JWg1 TIL that Vin Diesel has never met his father, and doesn’t know what race he is.
E1KNP TIL the skull on the moth covering Jodie Foster’s mouth on the poster for Silence Of The Lambs is actually 7 female bodies as depicted by Salvador Dali and represent the movies victims