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TIL that in 2006, King of the Hill was awarded by Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) for their positive portrayal of Asian Americans

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N7bb6 TIL FDR's White House housekeeper, Henrietta Nesbitt, was a legendarily awful cook. “Of course Henrietta did not personally do the cooking,” wrote a former WH maid, “but she stood over the cooks, making sure that each dish was overcooked or undercooked or ruined one way or another.”
rR6Kw TIL that Daniel Stern (Marv from Home Alone) has done over 500 hours of charity work in a single year, started a foundation for teens in Malibu and is an artist of bronze sculptures
Y7nKP TIL Brad Pitt was banned from China for nearly 20 years after starring in Seven Years in Tibet
Gy6G TIL an experiment sponsored the Quaker Oats corporation fed 73 mentally disabled children radioactive oatmeal in order to track “how nutrients were digested”. The children were told they were joining a science club in exchange for larger portions of food and trips to baseball games.
a8doL TIL about the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon's English-speaking west, between separatists and (Francophone) Cameroon. Atleast 6,000 people have died and over 700,000 people have been displaced.