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TIL: "Officer Obie" from the song "Alice's Restaurant" was a real person, and modeled for several Norman Rockwell paintings.

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PlMJ TIL that the US bailout was significantly more than $700 Billion and that the pledge actually reached $11.7 Trillion.
N71P1 TIL Bruce Almighty director Tom Shadyac suffered a head injury in 2007 and completely dropped out of the film industry afterward. He also sold a majority of his possessions and moved into a trailer park.
5VelD TIL In the United States over 24 billion eggs are broken per year at egg breaking facilities. Additionally egg membranes are high in collagen and used in dietary supplements.
wpr1 TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”
5YDP TIL Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1958 - 1962, murdered 45 million of his own citizens. Death toll during World War 2 was 55 million worldwide.