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TIL that puttanesca means whore
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TIL that the French statesman Tallyrand lived for two years in the United States during the French Revolution, meeting Benedict Arnold by chance and living in the house of Aaron Burr. When Burr moved to France in self-imposed exile ten years later, Tallyrand refused to return the favour.
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TIL that Ben Stiller came up with the idea for "Tropic Thunder" while working on the set of Steven Spielberg's WW2 drama "Empire of the Sun" and seeing actors come back from "fake" Army boot camp and treating it like a real war experience.
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TIL Ben Folds leaked his own album, but with a mix of real singles and fake songs. The band wrote and recorded six joke tracks in just one day, bundled them with genuine singles, and leaked the "album" online.
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TIL Burt Ward once claimed that his penis was so big that ABC prescribed him penis-shrinking pills.
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TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.