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TIL Corned Beef & Cabbage (a favorite St. Patrick's Day dish in America) isn't Irish

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4Xy76 TIL the coffee table from 'Parasite' was specifically designed so that 3 adults could hide under it
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Opb7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson often peed in public, even during his presidency. One time, a gust of wind blew his urine onto the leg of one of his Secret Service agents. When the agent informed him he was being peed on, President Johnson replied, “I know. That’s my prerogative.”
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JwNQ TIL that Kurt Cobain passed up playing a minor role, (i.e. the Eric Stoltz’s character), in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie. Also he thanked Quentin on the back of the In Utero album in the “Special Thanks” section.