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TIL every single Miss America winner since 1960 is still alive

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4kNwa TIL that Ulysses S. Grant incurred more Union loss of life than was inflicted on the Confederacy during his Eastern Campaigns of the American Civil War.
vL0L TIL Fake smiling causes real happiness
4XPrJ TIL Nicolas Cage did magic mushrooms after his cat snuck into his refrigerator and ate some.
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
oRoM8 TIL that 5th Element director Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich started a relationship after Maiwenn (who played the Diva) and he broke up. Luc and Milla by the end of the film would have casual conversations in the "Divine Language" that Luc had made up, and that Milla added to