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TIL that Mormons believe masturbation leads directly to circlejerking which in turn makes you homosexual

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X04RD TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.
0lMp TIL Gunsmoke, the longest running television series of the 20th century, was cancelled so abruptly that CBS didn’t even bother to tell the cast and crew. They read about it in trade publications the next day.
4XDoo TIL In 2002, the FBI was forced to pay environmental activist Judi Bari $4 million dollars after they found her critically injured from a car bomb during an assassination attempt and then immediately arrested her by falsely claiming she had put the bomb inside her own car.
jNPnj TIL Herbert Hoover was so fat that his doctor invented Hooverball, where "On a tennis-like court, two teams of three players throw a 6-pound medicine ball back and forth over an 8-foot net." Hoover lost 21 pounds in his term.
8rnL TIL Netlfix offers unlimited vacation time for employees so long as their work gets done.