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TIL Rachel McAdams who plays 17 year old Regina George was 25 years old at the time. Her mother on film Amy Poehler was was only 8 years older at 33.

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grvrW Today I learned that some ice fishermen netted South Dakota’s biggest ever drug bust.
grE6D TIL the Greenbrier Ghost led to the conviction of a murderer in West Virginia
E1P4o TIL Norwegians once spiked Nazi food rations with a highly effective laxative. The rations were unwittingly consumed by the Germans while on U-boats.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
GY4mN TIL so many Germans moved to the United States in the 1850s that, by 1855, New York had the third largest German population of any city in the world. Only those of Berlin and Vienna were larger.