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TIL Oprah had a brother who said that she never supported him financially because he was gay. He died of AIDS in 1989.

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9Ynk6 TIL an early script for Back to the Future featured Marty hiding in a lead-lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast. It obviously didn’t make it into the final version, but producer Steven Spielberg would later use the idea for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of them Crystal Skull
PYjRJ TIL how "a figment of the imagination" is a tautology. A tautology is a phrase or idiom in which the same idea is expressed twice using different words, like "it was sufficient enough".
JeXk TIL: The U.S. government has ordered that homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work.
vP8nD TIL that there are secret saunas built in the forest around the Mamquam river in BC, Canada. Provincial authorities are actively investigating and discouraging the use of these saunas because multiple people have been injured trying to access them
oR7EK TIL the median wage for all NFL players is roughly $860,000, which it has to be said is far below the $2 million mark that is commonly referenced. A rising first-year rookie has a minimum pay of $435,000. The most publicly exposed are the stunningly high earnings of top quarterbacks, like Tom Brady.