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TIL that Seth Green bases Chris Griffin’s voice on Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

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rNl4W TIL the main key to the Bastille is kept in George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. It was given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1790, who wrote “It is a tribute which I owe as a son to my adoptive father, as an aide-de-camp to my general, as a missionary of liberty to its patriarch.”
Bmvr TIL That a “Hearing Protection Act” has been introduced which would remove the heavy taxes and wait periods for firearm suppressors, letting them be purchased like guns.
0wdMy TIL Western sperm counts aren't actually dropping, instead testers sampled badly and made other errors
4kxy6 TIL of Aralkum Desert, the newest desert in the World. It was once a lake that dried up in 2014. Aralkum is situated in border of Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.