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TIL if you’re an American with over $4,436 in your bank account, you’re above average.

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JY6ak TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him “you gotta learn to love the bomb” and as a result, years later he came to realize “I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”
MejpK TIL that snipe hunting is a real thing. Snipe are waterfowl that overwinter in marshes, bogs and wet meadows. They are notoriously difficult to hunt and the word "snipe" is the etymological root of the word "sniper" we use today.
b9QO9 TIL that Earth Day co-founder beaten, killed, and composted girlfriend when she threatened to leave him
kJkb7 TIL that Loma, Montana's temperature changed by 103⁰ Fahrenheit on one day in 1972
17Qd TIL that if John Maklovich had turned down the role in Being John Malkovich the subject of the movie would have been Steve Buscemi (ie. Being Steve Buscemi)