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TIL the US Homeownership Rate Is Now the Lowest Since 1989
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TIL during filming of the 1970 movie Maidstone.. actor Rip Torn hit author/director Norman Mailer over the head with a hammer which resulted in an actual fight with Mailer biting off part of Rip Torns ear & Rip nearly choking Mailer to death… The fight was kept in the final cut of the movie
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TIL avocados are poisonous to birds, cats, dogs, rabbits, and basically ALL pets.
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TIL that in 1992, instead of engaging in a messy legal battle over the use of a slogan, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation simply arm-wrestled for whose company would own it.
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TIL Harald Hardrada was a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then return to Russia to marry a princess and arrived back in Norway as a king and finally invaded England with his army.
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TIL about Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious boogeyman that was said to ring residents of Londons’ doorbells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. Sightings of him stretched from 1837 to 1904.