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TIL the Amish have lower cancer rate than the rest of the population

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e0gvb TIL Muhammad Ali Once Helped Negotiate the Release of 15 U.S. Hostages in Iraq
JVGv TIL that Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.
D48g TIL Woodie Guthrie said of This Land is Your Land “This song is Copyrighted in U.S… and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do”
M7OBm TIL that actor Sir Michael Caine chose his acting pseudonym whilst standing in a phonebox in Leicester Square and spotting a nearby and for the 1954 movie "The Caine Mutiny".
gAX9 TIL that Addams Family’s living room was actually pink. Because the Addams Family was filmed in black and white, the colors for some of the items simply didn’t matter, if they found an object that looked just right for the set but was colored baby blue, they could still use it.