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TIL enough people are so certain that the “Berenstain Bears” were once spelled “Berenstein” that it has sparked a theory that they’re from a parallel universe.

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QVXX TIL that while George Harrison was being treated for a brain tumor in Switzerland, Ringo Starr went to visit him, but had to cut his stay short to go to Boston where his daughter was undergoing brain surgery. Harrison immediately asked Starr if he should go to Boston with him.
oMlo TIL that the color orange was named after the orange fruit. Up until the 1500’s, the color was referred to as “saffron” or simply “yellow-red.”
D1XAJ TIL Billy Redden, who played Lonnie in the famous Dueling Banjos scene from Deliverance, was paid only $500 for his role and now works at a Walmart in Clayton, GA.
16oXd TIL a sufragette once followed Winston Churchill everywhere he went and rang a bell every time he tried to speak in public.
0wAB1 TIL that Donald Glover admitted in a 2013 interview that he attempted to take his own life following the end of his 2012 “Camp Gambino” tour while staying in Australia.