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TIL that Jan Smithers (Bailey from WKRP in Cincinnati) was Josh Brolin's stepmom for several years before Barbra Streisand

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6Ewpl TIL that ripe oranges aren’t originally orange. Instead, they’re dyed or gassed to get the bright orange color we’re all accustomed to.
VBl9G TIL that Rhinoplasty(nose reconstruction surgery) has been performed since 3000 BC in Egypt, and a 600 BC Indian technique using a flap of skin from the cheek to reconstruct the nose is still in use today.
veex TIL that the primacy effect allows us to remember the first items in a list and the recency effect allows us to remember the last items in a list meaning the items in the middle of a list are often forgotten.
VM5E8 TIL of Hypatia. She was a world-renowned female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of the 4th-century who was literally torn apart by oyster shells and set on fire by a mob of Christain zealots.
9YjkM TIL Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story of ed gein, he would dig up bodies from graves and would make furniture out of their skin and would make anything out of their body parts.