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TIL that there are more blacks on welfare in the US than any other race despite being ~13% of the population.

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QJVlk TIL that Rhea Perlman (Carla from Cheers) is and has been married to Danny DeVito since 1982
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awZBM TIL that in 1921, a dog was put on trial for "catslaughter." He was represented by an actual lawyer, tried in an actual courtroom, in front of an actual judge, with an actual jury, who acquitted him for the crime.
Yeav TIL that the reason announcers and commentators of the 1950s spoke so oddly is because they spoke in something called “Transatlantic speech”. Another reason why is because the audio receivers of the day couldn’t pick up bass tones.
mdXy TIL Fred Phelps hated Mr. Rogers and called him a wuss because he “…preached tolerance of all sorts of people in ways that directly contradicted the Bible.”