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

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drEZ TIL in 1955, Hugh Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy a short story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to the criticism, Hefner replied, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
meMx TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.
D1aBg TIL Americans in Germany frequently get into trouble because they mow their lawns on sundays and holidays, which is a punishable offense in Germany. German law forbids making excessive noise on sundays and holidays, aswell as from 10PM to 7AM on weekdays.
MeekB TIL that the US wanted to use nuclear explosions in attempt to reform geographic features of an Alaskan village in the 60's
eJj5 TIL that a whale’s skull is so thick that it requires a world war 2 anti-tank rifle to euthanize one that has beached itself.