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TIL-At age 30, you’re older than 42 percent of Americans(Today I turned 30…)

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OOM7 TIL shortly after a woman made up a fake Facebook profile to speak with her troubled 19yo niece, the niece asked the fictional boy to murder her Aunt, her Aunt’s fiance, her cousin, and the family dog
JYr0V TIL that Christopher Collins, the voice of Starscream in the original series, also voiced Cobra Commander in the 1983 G.I. Joe cartoon. Making him the voice of two classic bad guys for an entire generation. He later went on to have a successful stand-up comedy career.
NR91 TIL a Japanese submarine shelled California during WWII and the commander directed his gun to fire at a spot where he had an embarrassing fall before the war
dV4K TIL that Orsen Welles and Ernest Hemingway became great friends after getting into a fist-fight with each other in a theater:
4GQa TIL 30,000 people were killed during the 1902 Mount Pelee eruption, because the Governor refused to evacuate until after election day. The right wing government was worried about a possible socialist victory, and refused to let anyone leave until after the election on May 11th. It erupted on May 8th