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TIL that "Ghostbusters" actor Dan Aykroyd is one of the founders of a popular brand of spirit named "Crystal Head Vodka"

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KY0dG TIL that George Curzon who would become the Viceroy of India, was raised by a cruel governess Ellen Mary Paraman who made him wear a red petticoat with insults written on it. His attitude to women after this treatment, was problematic to say the least.
QQXa TIL that John Murtha, a sitting congressman til his death in 2010, was one of the corrupt politicians targeted in the sting on which American Hustle was based, and he was never prosecuted
9P5B TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
1aNlO TIL that Nellie Bly, the author of the famous exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House, wrote 11 novels that were thought to be lost to time until they were rediscovered and published earlier this year.
WkQZd TIL that Gina Han, whom police dubbed "the evil twin," was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for hatching what prosecutors alleged was a plot to kill her identical twin sister Sunny. Sunny was tied and forced to sit in a bathtub. A 911 call brought police to the scene and they arrested Gina.