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TIL that Brad Pitt has a younger brother named Doug who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Tanzania

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MerXa TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's autopsy revealed that even though he was only 39 when he died, he had the heart of a 60-year-old man, which was most likely stress-related
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