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TIL Bruce Willis has been sober since 1988

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v1ogB TIL that Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer for the 1933-1937 construction of the Golden Gate bridge made safety a high priority on the project. It was the first construction site in America to require workers to wear hard hats.
KWNE TIL there were widespread homosexual relationships among Australian and American soldiers stationed in New Guinea during World War II
4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
pDpO TIL Aldous Huxley, CS Lewis and JFK all died on the same day.
GYNdj TIL Rosemary Kennedy was developmentally disabled and lashed out regularly. She was given a lobotomy and asked to sing 'God Bless America'. They continued cutting away deeper into her brain until her singing became incoherent, then stopped.