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TIL Nearly one-quarter of Americans (24 percent) owe more money on their credit cards than they have in emergency savings.

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Lky9Z TIL that Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas and to satisfy SAG rules he had to change it due to some obscure guy with the same name.
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xVVR7 TIL that as a part of his celibacy experiments, Mahatma Gandhi used to sleep nude with his young female companions which included his 17 year old grand-niece Mridula Gandhi
GAWB7 TIL Frank Sinatra called the song "Strangers in the Night" - which gave him his first No. 1 hit in eleven years - "a piece of shit" and "the worst fucking song that I have ever heard."
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