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TIL that Jodie Foster's brother wrote a tell-all book in 1997 in which he outed their mother and also implied Jodie was gay (she came out decades later in 2013)

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OoPGR TIL that to punish tree thieves who cut down trees illegally, some cities spray trees with fox urine around Christmas time. It freezes on them and is odorless outdoors, but would stink up your whole house if brought indoors; the smell is "eye-watering."
ZQlR TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial
X0Anr TIL that a man planned to kill Jodie Foster but changed his mind after seeing her in a stage play
AXx7 TIL that Steve Irwin told his cameramen to keep rolling in case of an alligator attack, so that his last words would be “crikey” as he is going down the belly of the alligator.
MerXa TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's autopsy revealed that even though he was only 39 when he died, he had the heart of a 60-year-old man, which was most likely stress-related