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TIL that the original Mickey Mouse Club began as a theater production in Salem, Oregon in 1929.

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YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
7kxP TIL for those of you that buy glasses online, yet your optometrist refuses to give you your PD (Pupilary Distance), there is a federal law that says that they must give that information to you
OoB6g TIL that, in an 1886 speech, former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes said that "free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age."
yEl TIL that in Japan, “The Jersey Shore” airs under the name “Macaroni Rascals”
g1g9 TIL that a lovestruck 13 year old girl of Houston, Texas attempted to drive all the way(with her mothers car) to her 12 year old lover she met in Xbox Live, who just happened to live in Kentucky. She was stopped at Tenesssee before she could get to her “boyfriend’s” place.