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TIL Eminem got his name from his initials… Marshall Mathers (M&M)

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KYb7w TIL Harrison Ford has only played a villain in a movie once throughout his entire 50+ year film career: The thriller "What Lies Beneath" released in 2000 co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
yWm8 TIL that 10-20% of Americans and a higher percent of Europeans are infected with a brain parasite from cats that makes them 2.5 times more likely to get in a car accident, changes personality traits, contributes to schizophrenia, and may cause sexual attraction to cat urine.
GApxE TIL that in ancient Rome, there was a vending machine that dispensed holy water. Pilgrims would insert a coin and receive a measured amount of sacred water. It was one of the earliest recorded examples of a coin-operated machine!
b60Ya TIL Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Considered a Presidential Run in 1967
wQNW TIL that American volunteers fighting in other nations armed forces in WW2 lost their citizenship and changed their nationality to Canadian. Congress eventually passed a blanked pardon in 1944.