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TIL The average high school student today has the same stress level as the average psychiatric patient did in the 1950s.

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e0nAn TIL While shooting The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant racked up US$40,000 at the bar Hyatt in London, where he was staying. According to some estimates his average daily consumption of alcohol was a case of beer, three bottles of wine, and a couple of bottles of brandy.
lo68a TIL In 1847, with a population of just 20,000 people, Toronto took in 38,560 Irish famine victims
NX0mP TIL the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. This perpetuated the myth that lemmings commit mass-suicide for years to come.
nV47 TIL that while rated R in the U.S and Australia. Saving Private Ryan was rated pg 12 in Colombia, pg 13 in Spain, and pg 14 in Chile, Peru and Brazil.
RQyw TIL Richard Nixon admitted in later life that he dreamed of becoming a rapper, saying “I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.”