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TIL the KGB spy assigned to George Orwell would later lose his faith in Communism, after reading Orwell’s books

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X0gGQ TIL that by the 1830s, American alcohol consumption had peaked at an all-time high of 7.1 gallons of absolute alcohol per capita annually--more than three times the current consumption rate of 2.18 gallons (2005).
v1Wrx TIL, Bethel Church legitimately believes they can raise the dead through prayer. In 2019 their followers unsuccessfully tried to revive a deceased 2 year old
rvKw TIL that if you loose a tooth but can put it back in it’s socket within 20 minutes, there’s an extremely high chance that the roots will heal themselves.
L5Jp TIL, after Rocky IV’s release, a joke was making rounds that since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on the joke which became the movie Predator.
bep7 TIL that domestic violence is about 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general, according to numerous studies.