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TIL President Reagan was shot over the shooters infatuation with Jodi Foster and the hope she would be impressed by his actions. Jodi loves rainbows.

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Wk8v9 TIL Tommy Chong’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong discovered actor Chris Pratt working as a waiter at a Bubba Gump restaurant and cast him in a film.
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.
16wx4 TIL the woodlouse, a common crustacean that goes back 100 million years, has over 50 different common names used around the world
gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
VoB TIL that over long periods of time, couples literally develop similar facial features.