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TIL Anthony Hopkins has Aspergers

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OoB8a TIL: Chocolate for most of its 4,000-year history was actually consumed as a bitter beverage rather than as a sweet edible treat
gN8b TIL that during the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico without due process. An estimated 1.2 million were US citizens.
6EAQm TIL Crocodiles are the ultimate survivors. Having arisen some 200 million years ago, they have outlived the dinosaurs by some 65 million years. Even humans, the most fearsome predators ever to stalk the Earth, have failed to force into extinction any of the 23 species of crocodilians.
5nND TIL that in the USA, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
8evGa TIL that Alfred E. Neuman was an unnamed stock character in advertisements and political art dating as far back as 1894 before he was named and adopted as the mascot for Mad Magazine in 1956.