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TIL that Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger improvised a lot of their banter in the movie “Jingle All the Way.”

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8e7xa TIL that alma mater roughly translates to a mother’s milk, or “nourishing mother”
4QkJ TIL of Archibald McArthur, a successful Wisconsin lawyer who took a vow of poverty, later moved to Florida at age 79, and left his family members each $5, while leaving his remaining fortune of $3 million in today’s money to a stranger he met on a park bench.
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p8kZO TIL that the Vikings were considered neat-freaks who seduced good Anglo-Saxon women by barbaric unfair practices like bathing once a week and combing their hair every day.
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