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TIL God Bless America was written by a Russian guy.

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GYa74 Today I learned that Penn & Teller first performed together 45 years ago at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, sometimes with a third performer, billed as "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society."
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.
pvkb TIL Charlize Theron was discovered by a talent manager in 1994, after she was spotted throwing a tantrum inside a bank over the teller’s refusal to cash a check.
MoPA TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan released an article saying that women should not worry about contracting HIV from infected men and that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”, claiming it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
wYdM TIL That as late as the early 1900’s jaguars natural habitat extended into Texas and almost to Louisiana.