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TIL: Hucksters and flim flam men plagued Iowa in the pre-WW1 years selling "patented" bridges that fell apart or washed away to naive county commissioners.

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R6j6 TIL Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.”
9PN6 TIL that space travel gives astronauts a feeling of being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness
Qpyk TIL Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee’s parents were Holocaust survivors. When Rush’s album 2112 was released, British magazine NME called the band Nazis due to the album’s lyrical allusions to Ayn Rand and Objectivism, deeply offending Geddy Lee.
X0Jyj TIL Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play Napoleon Dynamite. The movie grossed over $40 million in the United States.
QQyE TIL females have spontaneous swelling of the clitoris during sleep or when waking up, which is equivalent to morning wood in males.