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TIL that the actress who played Zenon was arrested and charged over a DUI.

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d805B TIL that drug overdoses killed more Americans in one year than ten years of the Vietnam War.
QNvvk TIL in March 1933 The Enabling Act became law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
9Yy7G TIL the Mister Softee jingle playing from its trucks actually has lyrics.
l7Y45 TIL the band Counting Crows got its name from "One for Sorrow", a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, which are members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the 1989 film Signs of Life, which starred his friend Mary-Louise Parker.
ANgYx TIL of the practice of Muerto Parado. After you're dead they embalm, dress and pose you doing the thing you enjoyed when you were alive. This gentlemen was posed playing video games surrounded by snacks, which he loved doing in life.