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TIL Barbra Streisand has built a shopping mall in the basement underneath her house, unstaffed and she stocks it with things she buys herself. Need a gift for a friend, she ‘shops’ for it in her own private mall.

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a8v6M TIL that president Ronald Reagan had 720 bags of jelly beans delivered to the White House each month and used them as a way to quit smoking
45rX TIL of the Ket language. Spoken by 200 people in central Siberia north of Mongolia, it is considered to be in the same language family as Navajo. That would make Ket speakers the only remaining members in Eurasia of the original population that colonized the Americas.
86ra TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.
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