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TIL Actress Alicia Witt's mother held the Guinness World Record for the longest hair from 1989 to 1996

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YpOlx TIL that suicide rates are alarmingly high among gender nonconforming individuals. 50.8% of female to male persons have attempted suicide, 41.8% among those identifying as non binary, and 29.9% among male to female.
OodJa TIL 'The Spy Who Shagged Me' in the Austin Powers series is an Academy Award nominated film (for best makeup). It also won a Grammy for Madonna's 1999 song 'Beautiful Stranger' (for best song written for a motion picture, TV or other visual media).
ZDjR TIL that the saying “when it rains, it pours” actually comes from the tagline of Morton Salt, whose ionized salt didn’t clump in damp/humid weather
9w86Q TIL white wine can help improve the taste of burnt food
NXgp6 TIL the Nordic European countries celebrate Fastelavn, alike halloween, which includes traditionally kids beating a barrel with a cat inside using a bat (not anymore), beg for money and candy and flog their parents with sticks