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TIL the 2nd M in MGM is for Louis B. Mayer. He allegedly molested 16 year old Judy Garland, Dorthy from original Wizard of OZ movie.

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lo9G7 TIL Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. Readers initially assumed Jhabvala to be Indian because of her portrayals of the nuances of Indian lifestyles. Later, the revelation of her true identity led to falling sales of her books in India
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
697pY TIL that, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed orgasms prevented mental illness and he fought droughts and UFOs with giant energy guns. In the 1950s, the government called him a fraud, burned his books, and busted up his lab in Rangeley.
LkAd9 TIL In the 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But the existence of the female program was classified. Moscow shut the space squad down, and hid its existence for decades.
yYNe TIL that Aldi operates the supermarket chain Trader Joe’s.