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TIL sending your parents to a senior home significantly shortens their life-span "When you put an older parent in a retirement home, their life expectancy drops between two and six years." - Dan Buettner

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oBbBR TIL I learned that Nolan Ryan was the first professional athlete to earn $1,000,000 in a single season.
a6gM TIL part of the budget for the movie “Blues Brothers” was specifically to buy cocaine for Belushi, Aykroyd and the cast
1aVRW TIL that for six months Daniel Radcliffe wore the same clothes every time he went out in public, so that the paparazzi could not sell any photos of him.