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TIL That there’s a cookbook called “Fat Brad” that features recipes for all the meals that Brad Pitt has eaten onscreen

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Z8PMR TIL The Pew Research Center estimates that since 1970, the share of the nation’s income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost two-thirds to around 40 percent.
nMRY TIL that one of the Nazi generals who was responsible for the Wola massacre of 40,000 in Poland was pardoned by West Germany because “genocide was not in the criminal code of Nazi Germany”.
w9W6 TIL of Jeanette Rankin, the first female member of congress and the only person to vote “Nay” to go to war with Japan in ‘41. Many requested she change her vote but she refused. After the vote, an angry mob followed her from the Capitol building, forcing her to take refuge in a telephone booth.
7oap TIL Eleanor Roosevelt had an aversion to sexual intercourse, and considered it “an ordeal to be endured”
eKOD TIL There is a medical condition called Exploding Head Syndrome, which causes people to experience a sudden feeling of explosion and blinding light inside their head moments before falling to sleep.