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TIL that U.S. states used to conduct their own censuses.
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TIL Actor James Stewart was also a poet. Once, while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he read a poem called “Beau” that he had written about his dog. By the end, Carson had started crying.
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TIL A Listerine mouthwash ad from the 1920s coined the phrase, “Often a bridesmaid but never a bride” to describe women with bad breath.
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TIL there are no Walmarts in New York City due to intense opposition from local unions and politicians
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TIL a man in England accidentally blew up his parents’ house after he knocked on a stove’s control, which burned a clothes basket, which then lit a grocery bag on fire and caused an aerosol can of deodorant to explode, resulting in £20,000 ($26,182) in damages.
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TIL Dave Chappelle was offered the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump, but turned it down because he thought the role would be demeaning and the movie would bomb.