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TIL Laura Branigan wasn't the original singer of 'Self Control'

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YWrd TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and at social events he would share graphic accounts of the slaughter of animals in an effort to make his dinner guests shun meat.
dJkB TIL Ashton Kutcher tried Steve Jobs’ fruitarian diet when getting into character for the jOBS movie and ended up in the hospital because it messed up his pancreas levels
OXlg TIL Joseph Jackson tried to teach his kids a lesson about leaving their bedroom windows open, so one night while his son Michael was asleep, Joseph wore a mask, climbed through the window, and shouted at him. Michael Jackson would later have recurring nightmares of being kidnapped from his bedroom.
4XgbR TIL there is a man (Ioannis Ikonomou) in the European Commission who works as a translator and can speak 47 languages, including 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can also speak dead languages like Old Church Slavic
woNL1 TIL although he popularized the term “Second World War” throughout 1941, by 1942 FDR pushed for a different name for the war, and asked the public for ideas. He himself preferred the name “The Survival War.”