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TIL Jodie Foster is so fluent in French, she dubs her own movies

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lo9ra TIL the Aorta can develop an aneurysm and burst, killing you in seconds. It's called the silent killer
jNpDv TIL that the largest Masonic Temple in the world, the Detroit Masonic Temple, was saved from foreclosure in 2013 by Jack White of the White Stripes. White paid off $142,000 owed in back taxes by the Temple due to the fact that it had given his mother a job as an usher when she was in need.
D1G8D TIL about Banjawarn station in Western Australia, once owned by the Japanese cult responsible for the 1995 sarin subway attacks. They used the extremely remote property to experiment with chemical weapons and due to an unexplained seismic event some believe they detonated a nuclear bomb.
OGG1 TIL the main culprit for toothlessness in rural Appalachia is “Mountain Dew Mouth” not inbreeding or poor dental hygiene as once suspected.
am1b TIL while Paul Revere had a famous 15 mile ride to alert the colonists of the British invasion, Israel Bissel rode 345miles starting that same night warning every town from Boston to New York to Philadelphia that the war had begun.