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TIL Joe Pesci has only been in 2 movies since 1998.

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ONNX TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was present or near for the Assassinations of three America presidents (his father, Garfield and McKinley). He once refused a presidential invitation saying “I’m not going… because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present”
Lx4v TIL in Japan they have lactation bars offering human breast milk. 2,000 (18$ USD) yen gets you a shot and 5,000 (46$ USD) yen gets you the nipple.
OWk4 TIL that Teller started the practice of being silent during performances to avoid being heckled at frats while in college.
a8NPA TIL Aussie universities are so dependent on income from international students that they turned failing grades into pass grades and a student graduated with such poor English that a nurse misfed a patient dishwashing liquid because he couldn't read the label on the bottle.
9LMG TIL: The Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. Zika is normally transmitted by mosquitoes. It has symptoms similar to dengue fever.