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TIL Anderson Cooper was a college intern at the CIA

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9YKYQ TIL Robert Downey Jr. provided his DVD commentary in Tropic Thunder as Lincoln Osiris, a nod to a joke in the film that Lazarus never breaks character until he completes the DVD commentary
v178D TIL former first lady Helen Herron Taft declared that all waiters in the White House would need to have a full head of hair, and banned all bald-headed butlers from the dining room.
xV5G5 TIL there is a word for the blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush, and that word is nurdle.
4AWb TIL that the largest recorded iceberg was bigger than Belgium
Z8GaQ TIL that the beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.