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TIL that the Addam's Family living room was decorated in pink. We just didn't know it because the TV series was shot in black and white.

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v1RM4 TIL Senator Mitch McConnell once filibustered his own bill because democrats agreed with it
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XkG8 TIL Coldplay turned down multi-million dollar contracts from Gatorade, Diet Coke, and Gap, who wanted to use their songs. Their response: “We wouldn’t be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs’ meanings like that.”
wLGe6 TIL of Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris who helped over 500 Jews disguise themselves as Muslims by making the administrative staff grant them certificates of Muslim identity, which allowed them to avoid arrest and deportation.
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