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TIL Jamie Lee Curtis fell in love with the guitarist from SPINAL TAP after seeing him in a Rolling Stone magazine article and they are still married to this day.

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e0yLb TIL John Steinbeck after visiting Kiev in 1947: "If the US were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers, 15% of the population, you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine"
aD9N TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s real life uncle played Wedge Antilles, the only other person aside from Luke Sky walker to survive both death stars
v1l7j TIL of Dondurma, a Turkish variant of ice cream typically sold from carts, where the vendor deliberately pranks the customer before serving the actual cone
9wLar TIL: At the time of the French Revolution the majority of people in France did not speak French.
9YWvG TIL that people whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities