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TIL that Rick Moranis is returning to on-screen acting after a 23 year hiatus

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r0RW TIL in response to rising chlamydia rates in Norway, a sex education charity hired a 19-yo student to wear a giant penis costume and squirt people with golden confetti - “If I can do a good thing for others, just by being a dick, there is nothing better…”
Eg9Qp TIL In a bid to reverse the declining popularity of Greyhound racing in the UK during the 1930's, they imported and attempted to train Cheetah's to race
b9rXQ TIL in 2018, a kitten named Pawfficer Donut was sworn in to the Troy, Michigan PD's "Feline Unit" to perform community outreach for the department as well as raise awareness for animal adoption. She replaced another police cat named Pawfficer Badges who got feline leukemia.
VBn4Z TIL Throughout history, only 8 people received Honorary citizenship of the United States. Sir Winston Churchill and Saint Teresa of Calcutta were the only ones to receive the honor during their lifetimes.
X0woD TIL in his autobiographical account of taking on monopolies, Roosevelt recounted: “...we had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.”