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TIL The entire city of Liverpool, UK has boycotted the tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'

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6EOOQ TIL that high use of social media, television, and computers by adolescents is associated with increased depression; however, video gaming is not associated with depression.
gMpLL TIL The Wolf of Wall Street was almost wholly produced with money embezzled from Malaysia's Development Fund (their former prime minister is serving jail time but the main embezzler got away)
RxNQ TIL that Cary Grant’s girlfriend convinced him to see Alice Cooper in concert. On the ride home, when she asked him what he thought of it, he said, “Remember I told you about the time I took LSD in my doctor’s office and shat all over his rug and floor?… Well now I know how that poor doctor felt.“
p8mLA TIL in WWII, Italian doctors made up a disease to save Jews from the Nazis. "Syndrome K" was said to be a deadly, highly contagious, disfiguring disease and the doctors saved at least 20 Jews by quarantining them.
ekl4 TIL Russell Brand was legally entitled to take $20 million dollars from Katy Perry’s fortune after their divorce but refused to take any.