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TIL - John Quincy Adam's would regularly go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.

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YbwP TIL Kevin Bacon initially thought he hit a career low with the film “Tremors” even stating that he “broke down and fell to the sidewalk” screaming “I can’t believe I’m doing a movie about underground worms!”
LeQv TIL that the nomadic “hunter-gatherer” phase of humanity makes up over 90% of Homo Sapien history. Civilisation and recorded history have existed for a tiny fraction of the time that our species has existed.
GYDPE TIL: Tennessee tried to force drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their sales of illegal substances
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