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TIL Indigenous women and girls are seven times more likely to get murdered in Canada

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ne1PP TIL Chris Farley has a brother (Kevin Farley) who does Stand-Up Comedy
9wOp6 TIL that the original lyrics to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” were much more depressing. The lyrics were changed because Judy Garland refused to sing those lyrics to a child. The lyrics were then changed once more because Frank Sinatra wanted the song to have a more positive tone.
b9ml4 TIL Nikolai Vavilov a botanist/agronomist that starved to death in prison to defend the importance of biodiversity in agriculture.
WnVL TIL George Lucas came back from shooting Star Wars in England to find Industrial Light & Magic only had 3 of the 365 shots completed yet had spent half of their $2 million. He was hospitalized for hypertension and vowed to never direct another film
XrP6 TIL If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% on the planet.