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TIL John Ratzenberger (Cliff Calvin from Cheers) has been in every Pixar film to date.

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x6XPb TIL that babies prefer speech sounds over other types of non-language sounds (i.e. music) even from birth. So, humans begin their language acquisition with a bias for listening to speech.
ep44J TIL that the Zodiac Killer supposedly wrote a complaint to the San Francisco Chronicle that the 1973 movie "Badlands" was "murder-glorification" and asked the paper to cut it's advertisements
ZGpB TIL: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was such a poor cook, that her husband “expelled” her from the kitchen and took charge of all cooking, despite traditional gender roles. When her husband died, the spouses of SCOTUS justices released a cookbook in his honor.
9YmmG TIL An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older -- about 1 in 4 adults -- suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
kJWl5 TIL that in Australia, the median maternal age at childbirth reached a 90-year low of 25.4 years in 1971, steadily rising ever since - by 2022, the parental age gap narrowed to its smallest range, dropping below an average 2-year difference, for the first time in half a century.