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TIL Dateline's Keith Morrison is actor Matthew Perry's stepfather

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XlnR TIL that, following the introduction of the double-blade razor, the first-ever episode of “Saturday Night Live” featured a fake advertisement for a triple-blade razor, with the slogan: “Because you’ll believe anything.”
QY9 TIL there is no FDA limit on lead in lipstick. The amount of lead has risen at an alarming rate since 2000.
16wYV TIL that one of the major causes of the downfall of the Papal States and the unification of Italy was the abduction of a Jewish boy by the Pope in 1858.
Ooe87 TIL: Wales can trace its throne in continual rulership back to the Romano-British, making it technically the last Roman rump state left in Europe.
5Yel9 TIL Mike Myers' 2008 film "The Love Guru" was so badly received by critics he hasn't had an on-camera starring role in a film since. One critic, in his review, predicted it would be "career-killing" for Myers and "one of the worst films of at least the past several years."