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TIL Jeff Bridges’ grandchildren call him “DudePa”
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TIL that Caddyshack was improvised so much that the initial cut was about 4 ½ hours long (Bill Murray’s “Cinderella Story” monologue alone was over 30 minutes long), and had to be edited down.
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TIL Canada puts 10.7% of their GDP into health care and covers all citizens, while the US spends 17.1% and doesn’t
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TIL the term 'soap operas' originated from daily 15 minute programs on the radio and were so-called because they were sponsored by soap companies, such as Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble. Soap operas were specifically engineered to appeal to women with the intention of increasing sale of soap
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TIL Nelson Mandela was on the U.S. Terror Watch List until 2008
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TIL that Inventor Lewis Latimer, not only made Thomas Edison's Light Bulb more efficient & practical, he invented an Apparatus for Cooling & Disinfecting, making rooms more sanitary & climate-controlled. He also improved the design of elevators & co-invented (1874) a toilet for train cars.