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TIL that Congress has a lower approval rating than Hugo Chavez, the US going Communist, Paris Hilton, the BP Oil Spill, Banks, and Nixion During Watergate

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jeja TIL at 90 years old Jeanne Calment sold her apartment and the buyer agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died - she lived to 122!
Eg1x TIL it was claimed the reason the character Tracy replaced Brock in the cast of Pokemon was because it was thought he might be perceived as a racist stereotype because of his eyes. They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared.
XEPZP TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, THE TEENAGE GIRLS WHO SEDUCED AND KILLED NAZIS. They looked so young that no one suspected them as spies working against the Nazis. They would distract the Nazis by pretending to seduce them, and later would lure them off and do the killing themselves.
4XBP6 TIL about Celia Blay, a 65-year old woman who caught a murderer over the internet. A man had been posing as a female nurse online, trying to convince people to commit suicide. At least five people did. Blay gathered enough evidence to prove it was one man, eventually leading to his capture.
1a7vX TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had the longest-running theatrical release in film history (Since 1975)