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TIL there are only 15 people who have won an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy, including John Legend.

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4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
1QeP TIL they killed off “Susan” on Seinfeld because Jason Alexander felt uncomfortable acting with her.
7rQKX TIL Tears contain a natural painkiller leucine-enkephalin which reduces pain and improves mood
4KmR TIL that a man lost about 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brian) but still led a normal life. They believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to function despite the loss of mass.
VBkgk TIL Spc. Sean Baker was nearly beaten to death during a training exercise at Gitmo where he played the role of a detainee. Despite using the codeword and identifying himself, the beating only stopped when his jumpsuit ripped revealing fatigues