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TIL This saturday in America you can put nonperishable food items into your mailbox to be picked up by your postman. They will be donated to local food pantries!

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yQAJX TIL John Ross Bowie, who played the reoccurring role of Kripke, on "The Big Bang Theory" also is a film critic, who wrote a whole book on the movie "Heathers".
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VMGpQ TIL of Jonathan Luna, an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore who was found dead next to his car in a creek, having drowned after sustaining a head injury and being stabbed 36 times with his own pocketknife. Authorities disagree whether his death was murder or suicide.