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TIL Suzanne Somers was fired from Three’s Company when she asked to be paid equally to costar John Ritter.

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yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law
KYmkJ TIL that in 1720, the House of Savoy traded the rich island of Sicily for the poorer Sardinia under pressure from European powers. Though a downgrade in land, it let them keep their royal title—setting the stage for their descendants to later control all of Italy.
xVVlo TIL that the old Democratic-Republican party used to act like Democrats until they overwhelmed the Federalist party and split into the Democratic and Republican party.
0GvA TIL AOL still brings in $600 million a year from dial up Internet subscriptions.
p8Rbp TIL when Patrick Stewart grew a comb over as a young bald man, some friends of his invited him on a picnic, then forcibly held him down, cut it off, and told him "You be yourself. No more hiding."