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TIL Angelina Jolie sold the first pictures of her biological children for a total of 23.7 million dollars. She donated it all to charity.

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WB1L TIL Google became more valuable than Russia’s entire stock market back in December 2014
6RkW TIL That Nazi Hermann Goering said: “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
dxA9 TIL in Japan women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s Day and the men reciprocate it a month later for White Day.
k68d TIL–As Zelda Fitzgerald, Author F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, emerged from the anesthesia after giving birth, Scott recorded Zelda saying, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” This was a line later used for Daisy Buchanan within the Great Gatsby.
logM5 TIL that groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal.