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TIL Steve Harvey sent a television for Christmas every year to the Teacher Who Said He’d Never Be on Television
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TIL that Christopher Lee sent Peter Jackson a photograph of him in a wizard’s costume, wanting to play Gandalf, but Jackson decided he would be a perfect Saruman, instead.
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TIL that Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony for convicts who committed new offenses after they had arrived in Australia
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TIL a California lawyer filed for a restraining order to stop his neighbor’s kids from playing basketball claiming their game dropped the value of his house by $100k. He was ultimately denied with the court saying that reasonable people can expect “some inconveniences and annoyances” from neighbors
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TIL the McDonald’s corporation quietly phased out Ronald McDonald, the companies clown mascot, due to the 2016 clown scare video fad
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TIL that the town of Why, Arizona was originally known as just “Y” due to the Y-shaped intersection of two roads. It changed its name to “Why” due to an Arizona state law requiring town names to be at least 3 letters long
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TIL Centuries after Alexander the great’s death, his tomb was a tourist attraction. Many of the roman emperors who visited the tomb left with souvenirs, effectively looting the monument. According to one account, Augustus Caesar tried to touch the 300 year old mummy, accidentaly breaking its nose
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TIL the modern air conditioner was invented by Willis Carrier not to cool people, but to reduce damaging humidity in a print shop
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TIL building codes in South Florida require exterior doors to swing outwards because it offers better protection against hurricanes. It was enacted after Hurricane Andrew
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TIL that the entry fee for Hammond’s Jurassic Park (from the first movie) was supposed to be 550 $
