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TIL The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s

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vKMR TIL frequent sex can make you look up to ten years younger.
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rN4kw TIL: April 8 was chosen for Rex Manning day in Empire Records, because that is the day Kurt Cobain was found dead, and the writers felt that the '90s had 'lost its mascot.'
lodDV TIL about Junius Groves, a former slave who walked 500 miles from Kentucky to Kansas City, Kansas and became very wealthy after finding great success growing potatoes.
rR7jo TIL that Green Day's Billie Jo Armstrong recorded a solo song called "Look for Love" at age 5, which was released as a single in 1977.