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TIL that the actress who played Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation was the same lady who provided the voice for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl

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LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.
NwYN TIL that the world’s largest cocaine producer is Peru. It has dethroned Colombia.
gME1W TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
Lnmv TIL that a mother wanted her daughter to make the cheerleading squad so bad, she hired a hitman to kill the mother of a girl already on the team with the belief that she would be so devastated by her mother’s death that she would drop out off the squad, thereby giving the spot to her daughter.
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