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TIL that Brad Pitt suffers from Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)

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jN1mj TIL the US Senate used the same gavel for 165 years until Richard Nixon cracked it
OG4ag TIL: The ZM-87 is one of only a few laser weapons ever produced but stopped production a result of the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons ban.
M7mNW TIL Rickrolling came from the practice of Duckrolling, which was a bate-and-switch prank that led people to a picture of a wheeled duck. The prank came after another prank that changed the word "eggroll" to duckroll".
ANLLl TIL of FK Arkadag, a football club founded by the former Turkmenistan President in 2023. This non-corrupt team is so good that they were included in the Turkmenistan top flight right from its foundation and would go on to win 2 league titles and 1 Turkmenistan Cup, winning EVERY game along the way.
E1AEp TIL Sadly, Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman '78, committed suicide with drugs and alcohol in May of 2018. Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade died by suicide in June 2018, but Kidder's death was not ruled suicide until August.