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TIL: In 2016, a studio's marketing department decided to advertise a music-driven comedy as a mockumentary on Justin Bieber, which it wasn't, and it bombed even though it's absolutely hilarious!

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xV6no TIL the Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed to the public since July 30, 1916 when it sustained structural damage from the Black Tom explosion - an act of German sabotage targeting a US munitions depot during WWI
Bro0k TIL the chronology of fights between Mohammad Ali and Frazier didn't limit to just 3 matches rather there was a fourth match between Ali's and Frazier's daughters in which Ali's daughter won.
KOwpQ TIL the chemical giant Sigma-Aldrich makes three different corpse scents for canine training, including “recently dead,” “decomposed,” and “drowned victim.”
OG7xX TIL Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the Godfather book for only $80,000 before the book was popular. The book went on to sell 9 million copies in two years and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 67 weeks. It became the best selling published work in history for several years
Ob6L TIL that in 1936, Ole Massas (slang for slave masters) came in a “close second” to the winning entry, Rebels, in a contest held by the University of Mississippi’s student newspaper to select a nickname for their football team.