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TIL that the actress who plays Charlie's mom on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was also Miss Yvonne on Pee-Wee's Playhouse

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rNNDw TIL that the freed Africans Americans who were resettled in Liberia ended up oppressing the native Liberians in the same way that they were mistreated in the USA, including by establishing plantations
e0GKD TIL Bear Grylls survived a free fall from 16,000 feet after his parachute failed to deploy
8abQK TIL where seedless watermelons come from. Much like how a donkey and horse can make a mule but the mule will be sterile, seedless watermelons are the infertile offspring between diploid (22 chromosomes) and tetraploid (44 chromosomes) seeded watermelons.
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eQ7n TIL Jimmy Carter supported the elimination of all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana in 1977.