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TIL Samuel Jackson is the actor with the highest grossing film total of all time.

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0d9ZR TIL about Nobel Disease, when Nobel Prize winners come out with ludicrous or objectionable theories in areas outside their area of expertise later on in life. Example: Montagnier, who discovered HIV, believe that DNA gave off electromagnetic signals :0
Z87a4 TIL that abracadabra is actually a Hebrew (or Aramaic) phrase meaning “I create what I speak”
R7ALQ TIL that Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of President John Adams, underwent a mastectomy in a room of the Adams home at age 46. The operation was performed without the benefit of anesthesia.
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