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TIL of Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George". Membership was open to anyone whose first or last name was George.

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yVklM TIL On Dec 28, 2016, the day after Carrie Fisher’s death, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, had a stroke at the home of her son, Todd, where the family was planning Fisher’s funeral, she died later that day. Reynolds had said, “I want to be with Carrie” immediately before she had the stroke.
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v1yE7 TIL For as much as popular words and phrases go in and out of style, swear words have remained mostly unchanged for hundreds of years.
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