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TIL Steve Carell owns the old Marshfield General Store, in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He and his family spend their summers there and he bought it as an “emotional investment … to help preserve a little piece of history”.

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lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
kO94d TIL that a male pig's ejaculation lasts about 6 minutes on average and may last up to 30 minutes
VMwKG TIL that “With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat,”
RNd6 TIL a U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Contractor Organized Child Rape Parties In Afghanistan
jNyVj TIL Celine Dion hated “My Heart Will Go On” on first listen. Her husband convinced her to record a demo & she “wanted to choke” him for committing her. She recorded the demo in 1 take on a day she didn’t feel good. Everyone in the studio was “getting chills.” That demo track ended up in the movie.