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TIL Ronald Reagan was once rejected for a movie role because an entertainment executive didn’t think he had “that presidential look.”

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4XkyX TIL that researchers identified two different types of mind-wandering: intentional mind-wandering, which tends to occur when people engage in easy tasks, and unintentional mind-wandering, which tends to occur when people engage in difficult tasks.
4XyWg TIL of Thalweg, which is the deepest part of a flowing water and designated boundary between two adjacent Nations.
P10Vn TIL Ernest Hemingway had a transgender daughter. Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway) was an American physician and writer. Although she lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age, and in her sixties underwent surgery to transition
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