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TIL That in the United States people weigh the least shortly before Thanksgiving

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pY6ZO TIL the first video on youtube "me at the zoo" was actually a d*ck joke and it went over my head as a youth
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xANg TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks only 18 lines in ‘The Terminator’ and less than 100 words in total.
kOG6m TIL Before Chesley Sullenberger and The Miracle on the Hudson Capt. Carlos Dardano landed a 737 on a narrow levee in New Orleans after the engines flamed out in a rainstorm in 1988. Capt. Dardano also only had one eye from when his plane was shot at during the civil war in El Salvador.
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