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TIL that Matthew Perry doesn’t remember filming three seasons of Friends due to his alcohol and Vicodin addiction, leading to a drastic weight loss and two rehab stints in his twenties.

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yjOe TIL that JFK said he wanted to, “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
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