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TIL Clark Gable threatened to walk off the set of Gone With The Wind if bathrooms weren’t integrated.

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b9pxQ TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.
16rE8 TIL: A study on the history of bedbugs found that ancient humans received them intermittently due to nomadic lifestyle and they were considered pest and potion ingredients as cures for snake bites, malaria etc. Bed bugs were introduced to America by Europeans and recently there is a resurgence.
e0gdJ TIL The US postal service has a law enforcement arm made up of officers who carry firearms and have arresting powers
6KAZ TIL: Stubbs the cat has been the official mayor of Talkeetna Alaska for 20 years.
DmBp TIL that the 19th century Catholic Church declared “Americanism” a heresy, which included the beliefs in separation of church and state, secularism, etc. This played into American fears at the time that Catholics were too loyal to the Pope and were thus undemocratic, illiberal, and unassimilatable.