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TIL that Roxie Roker (Helen on "The Jeffersons") is Lenny Kravitz's mother

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6Ea88 TIL Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water.
v15Q4 TIL some people think in images and some think in words.
QwW6 TIL that a tank designed by the Swiss military had a bug where turning on the heater could cause the main gun to fire
p8r5O TIL John O'Brien, who wrote the novel "Leaving Las Vegas," only wrote one other produced piece while he was alive, a 1992 episode of Rugrats.
R5Ba1 TIL the HJ Heinz Company was heavily into pickle production in the early 1900’s. So much so that they patented and used a specialized Pickle Tank rail car for shipping pickles.