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TIL Samuel L Jackson stuttered as a child. He "pretended to be other people who didn't stutter" to overcome it. He still uses the word "motherfucker" to get through a speech block as he still has days when he stutters

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R7dWw TIL someone born in Shenzhen in 1980 would've started school in a tiny town about the size of Ithaca, NY or Port Huron, MI (30,000 population) and would now be living in the 24th largest city in the world, with more people than Paris (12 million+ population).
a8L1M TIL Data from the U.S. ASPE shows mothers are more likely to abuse their children than fathers. Of all child maltreatment cases, 54% of perpetrators were female, 46% male. Among female perpetrators, 86% were biological mothers, compared to 51% of male perpetrators being biological fathers.
Lk0oQ TIL unprovoked, Courtney Love picked on Gwen Stefani saying "Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani." After that quote Gwen recorded her first solo album with the cheerleader anthem "Hollaback Girl."
OG0Ra TIL that Spider Lake Provincial Park is the smallest national park in Canada
lpZG TIL that due to name confusion, staff at Slovakia and Slovenia meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail