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TIL Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia of antique furniture and certain types of silverware.

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p8beb TIL Stalin’s daughter hated communism, fled the USSR, and moved to America in 1967. Despite assassination threats from the Soviets, she denounced her father as a “moral and spiritual monster.”
QJWDL TIL A Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaître, was first to propose what became known as the Big Bang theory. The origin of the universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg." And was first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law.
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