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TIL: That to prepare for the role of Bridget Jones, actress Renée Zellweger worked at London book publishers Picador as a trainee in the publicity department.

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jNn6p TIL in 1993, the Mickey Mouse Club featured a young Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling.
69Abl TIL of the Outcomes Paradox in schizophrenia — Patients treated for schizophrenia in some developing countries have better outcomes than patients treated for schizophrenia in developed nations.
0wYrv TIL Actor Christopher Lee went as a volunteer to Finland during winter war but he and others was sent home because of their poor skiing skills (Article in finnish)
QNx1a TIL the name Linkedin actually comes from the phrase "Link Ed In", from the team's original department head, Ed Woolnaugh
KO1ZR TIL that adding the suffix "-gate" to scandals or controversies (like gamer-gate) was started by the former script writer for President Nixon to minimize the seriousness of the Watergate scandal.