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TIL as of 2019, 2 million Americans do not have running water in their home.

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9wn77 TIL of early film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. He brought Buster Keaton into the film industry and mentored Charlie Chaplain. His career effectively ended after he was tried and acquitted three times for the same crime
0vGA TIL a German author wrote a novel in which Hitler wakes up in modern Berlin with no memories since 1945 and becomes a comedian
Wk69Y TIL that months after the Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon blamed the media, establishment, partisans and the special prosecutor's staff for trying to take him down, and still had many supporters
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0OyL TIL an Australian news anchor wore the same suit every day for a year to illustrate the fashion double standard for men and women. No one noticed.