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TIL Bill Murray once broke Robert De Niro’s nose

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x6L5D TIL that the corporate takeover of American politics began in 1971 when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney, to draft a memo on the state of the country. His memo argued that American business was "under broad attack" from consumer, labor and environmental groups.
OdeR TIL an iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table.
a8mAN TIL about McCarthyism, a socio-political witch-hunt in the 1950s that cost Americans their jobs and destroyed their lives. It all began when Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of communists working in the U.S. government.
e0VZg Today I learned that one of the first human names ever recorded and is still used in modern times is Anita.
LLWP TIL that women often get hiccups when they are having a stroke