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TIL that the ‘perfect body’ for men went from chubby, to skinny to muscular over the last 150 years.

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0M5A TIL James Franco took up a late-night job at McDonald’s a while back in order to support himself and take acting lessons. While working there, he practiced accents on customers and stopped being a vegetarian.
80vG TIL Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review, stated “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t.”
OGJg7 TIL the highest point above Earth’s center is not Everest. It’s Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. This is because the earth is not a perfect sphere, but rather oblong shaped. The earth is fatter in the middle from centrifugal forces during its constant rotation.
7roex TIL that an economist won the lottery 14 times by calculating when the Jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number combination for that lottery.
YpAQZ TIL that it used to be illegal in the United States for actors to wear military uniforms in a production that portrayed the military negatively, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1970 that this was a violation of the First Amendment