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TIL Matt Groening’s parents were Homer and Margaret Groening.

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rNVay TIL the actor who played Ned Ryerson, had a garage band that went to a studio to record a couple of songs and had a local kid to lay down the lead guitar.....14 year old Stevie Ray Vaughn.
vJkr TIL… Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve. Source: http://ift.tt/2dN6n8I
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ep40n TIL that the US bombing in the Vietnam War was roughly 100 times the combined impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
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