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TIL That 80% Americans make up the "Exhausted Majority" and generally agree on many issues. Polarization is artificial! Watch out for misinformation meant to divide us

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xV1jg TIL Ben Franklin wished the Bald Eagle had not been chosen to represent the US as it is “of bad moral character, a rank coward and a robber” and a Turkey would be more fitting.
M7Xva TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.
Z8XpQ TIL cigarette butts can severely stunt the growth of plants by making the soil toxic
R7Vg1 TIL that in 1971, a US man named Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Pennsylvania. He was suing Satan, for making him fall down. The judge rejected "Mayo v Satan", pointing out that Mayo did not provide appropriate directions for the US Marshals to serve the summons to Satan.
wXxP TIL Carmen Electra became homeless in her early twenties when all her savings were stolen by an ex-boyfriend.