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7vBP TIL that after recovering from years of opoid (specifically vicodin and methadone) addiction, actor Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing from Friends) received a Champion of Recovery award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for opening a sober living home in his Malibu mansion
Oo4Pa TIL as a child, president Woodrow Wilson grew up in the South during the American Civil War. His oldest memory was of him playing in his yard at the age of three, when he heard a passerby announce in disgust that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.
W7Nj4 TIL Leonard Stogel, a record producer from California, perished in the American Airlines 191 crash in 1979, 17 years after he lost both of his parents in a previous American Airlines crash in 1962.
e0444 TIL When Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin left the lunar lander to step onto the moon, one of them broke off the toggle switch that armed the ascent engines. Aldrin jammed a pen into the resulting hole to arm the engines so they could get home.
9YjkM TIL Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story of ed gein, he would dig up bodies from graves and would make furniture out of their skin and would make anything out of their body parts.