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TIL: Before Vanna White, came Susan Stafford. Stafford was the first co-host of "Wheel of Fortune". After leaving the show to pursue philanthropy, Stafford said "For seven years, I stood there and turned letters. I had to ask myself if that was any way for a grown woman to live her life."

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0wpWy TIL Every year, 10 Russian officials travel to US military bases to check that the B-1 bomber cannot carry a nuke, as part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
JWeB TIL Winston Churchill found so much enjoyment and relaxation in laying bricks he even joined and paid dues in the Bricklayer’s Union. He even inquired in a letter “is there is a rule regulating the number of bricks which a man may lay a day?…and what are the restrictions on overtime?”
wl81 TIL a 2009 Oxford study on SSRIs found that SSRI antidepressants caused almost all participants to feel less empathy, sympathy, and positive emotions. Some reported feeling suicidal due to the SSRI emotional numbness and one began to self-harm in an effort to feel emotion.
r6ew TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.