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TIL that actress Lili Taylor is an avid birder and sits on the boards of the National Audubon Society and American Birding Association

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rbPx TIL that for the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a ‘pest and scourge of mankind.’
x6Kxk TIL 59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese
8e0WL TIL that despite the popularity and huge cult following of the movie Idiocracy it only made $495,303 gross at the box office, with a production budget of $2.4M.
eZpE TIL that each U.S. driver crashes an average of once every 10 years and that cell phone use is involved in 26% of all motor vehicle crashes.
epO7k TIL Samwise's (Sean Astin) dad is Gomez Addams (John Astin)