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TIL that Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Rec, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) suffered a stroke leaving her paralyzed and aphasic (unable to speak) in 2004

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wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.
yVrLp TIL that a popular slang in French for having your period is "Les Anglais ont debarqué", or, "The English have landed".
lo6bN TIL that only five nations have the capability to launch a missile to any place on earth, and they happen to be the exact same five countries that are designated as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (United States, China, France, Russia, Britain).
69bPZ TIL that voodoo dolls have never been prominent in the voodoo religion; this is an invention of early/mid 20th century American media. The Louisiana Voodoo High Priest has condemned the representation.
MNrB TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped and sent an anonymous letter from J Edgar Hoover encouraging him to kill himself