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TIL that Alice's son on the TV show "Alice", Phil McKeon, was the brother of Nancy McKeon who played Jo on the show "Facts of Life"

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B0Nx TIL that the “Vaportini” is a device whereby users heat alcoholic beverages and become intoxicated by inhaling the resulting vapors
GYlp7 TIL cockroach farms grow billions of hem to be used in China to eat kitchen waste. After six months of their lifespan they are washed and dried to be sold for cattle feed or their essence to be extracted for medicinal purposes (curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer)
OYea TIL the first serial killer in Jamica lived in a castle and hunted people for sport.
DQeV TIL that the only US Supreme Court Justice to ever have been impeached, Samuel Chase, was impeached on the grounds that his political views were allegedly affecting his court rulings.
7r5VO TIL J Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the A-bomb, resigned as leader of Los Alamos. The program had shifted focus to thermonuclear weapons, and Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the hydrogen bomb and similar weapons on the grounds that they were more destructive than mankind could responsibly control.