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TIL when asked about "The Happening", Mark Wahlberg said "It was a really bad movie... Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it. You can’t blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."

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KY8OR T​IL about James Graham​, ​a 18th century Scottish sexologist, who treated patients at his 'Celestial Bed', a canopied "wonder-working edifice" covered in musical automata, fresh flowers & live turtle dove​s, and which stimulated couples to conceive with oriental fragrances and celestial sounds
R71g1 TIL there is a font called "Public Sans" that is available for personal and commercial use
NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.
rNeZw TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
X0rej TIL There are species of birds that have developed the ability to acquire toxic chemicals in their bodies making them less palatable or even lethal when consumed or contacted