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TIL that two straight men got married to avoid paying higher taxes

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oBEOW TIL that one of the founders of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Samuel Dickstein, was himself a Soviet agent during the late 1930s.
D1PdJ TIL- An episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia after telling kids spiders 'can't hurt you'... in a country plagued with the deadliest creepy crawlies on Earth
VMAxD TIL that Dr. Seuss was humiliated by Theodore Roosevelt when he was a kid during an award ceremony, resulting in Dr. Seuss fearing large crowds for the rest of his life.
4kmZR TIL that 37 American pilots in '54 participated in the DBP battle on the French side against the Vietnamese, and two were killed in action
gKJb TIL Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams hated each other while filming The Notebook