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TIL Angela from Family Guy is voiced by Carrie Fisher, AKA Princess Leia

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Br1kd TIL the ‘airline captain accent’ is actually a subconscious imitation of famous pilot Chuck Yeager passed from generation to generation.
v1Kdx TIL that anti-margarine Senator Gordon Roselip incorrectly identified margarine as butter in a blind taste test. His wife later confessed that she had been feeding him margarine and telling him that it was butter.
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
yQRe8 TIL an early Oral Roberts Ministries world headquarters building was equipped with what was said to be “the world’s largest freight elevator, reputedly capable of taking an entire U.S. Postal truck loaded with the mailed donations of Roberts’ faithful TV audience to a secure processing room.”
X0L0r TIL About 20% of people in Greenland attempt suicide at some point in their lifetime.