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TIL that America consumes 100 acres of pizza per day.

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Lkk4p TIL the exceptionally articulate child spokesman for Shriners Hospital is a teenager who aspires to be a sportscaster and already has his own YouTube sports channel
yVApp TIL John Hughes chose to live in Chicago (where all his movies were set) rather than Hollywood or NYC because he preferred living among normal folks. "[In LA], you spend too much time with other people in the business and you trade ideas back and forth and it all sort of comes out looking the same."
X0Pa8 TIL the phrase“bleeding heart liberal” came from Pulitzer Price winning journalist, Westbrook Pegler in 1933. He used the phrase denouncing an anti-lynching bill before Congress. He also finished 3rd in Times Man of the Year behind FDR and Stalin in 1941.
78lrL TIL as of 2014, Peru was, with around 2349 people, the country with the most citizens named Hitler
BrVjD TIL that George Lucas pitched the idea of Indiana Jones to Steven Spielberg while they were building a giant sandcastle together while on vacation in Hawaii.