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TIL in Andy Warhol’s diary, he said Danny De Vito is “so cute, we should all marry him.”

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jNYaQ TIL that Constantinople was renamed to Istanbul in the 1930s, by the Republic of Turkey, not the Ottomans after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
BaaD Today I learned that with less than an hour’s time of instruction, people can be taught how to hold their breath (static apnea) for over 4 minutes.
DQXXD TIL As a British colony in the 1870s, Prince Edward Island was first promoted as a place to get away from the high-pressured society of North America. Many Americans saw Canada as a foreign land that resembled the old country of England but without the bustle
0e9M TIL Mark Wahlberg dropped out of school at 13, sold drugs, had two cars before he was old enough to drive and at 16 was arrested for attempted murder (while under the influence of angel dust)… and yet he still became what he is today
lwYV TIL about Lyenkoism, a pseudo-scientific theory that claimed that communism was nature’s base state in rejection to natural selection and genetic sciences. It was the official theory in the USSR until Stalin’s death.