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TIL Stephen Colbert’s wife grew up two blocks away from him but did not meet him until 1990

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Bgvjd TIL: Viking-era Scandinavians believed every person had a sort of luck spirit that could leave the body under extreme circumstances. The English saying that someone’s luck has run out is actually an adaptation of a Norse proverb. But when the Norse said it, they meant it literally.
dJpZ TIL Lesbians are four times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to own a Subaru
xVpb1 TIL the Chinese anthem originated from a movie.
Z8P6o TIL former boxer Lovemore N'dou got into law due to a horrible experience in South Africa and after having to deal with shady boxing promotors/managers... He now runs his own law firm!
woo46 TIL the author J.D. Salinger was a Sergeant in the US Fourth Infantry Division in WWII. He landed in the second wave at Utah Beach on D-Day, carrying a draft of "The Catcher in the Rye" with him there and through several battles, and at the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.