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TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.

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Ba8L TIL two of Pocahontas’s descendants have become first lady
woOA7 TIL the US wastes an estimated 1.3% of GDP by throwing away 40% of all food
dYj9 TIL that “Hikikomori” is a current phenomenon where young Japanese men are withdrawing from society and courtship, prompting “some Japanese girls to initiate the courtship”.
mx98O TIL China never encountered the Huns and Disney tricked me!
YKQA TIL that in 1900, the anarchist Marius Jacob organized a band of thieves with three rules: no killing, except to preserve life or freedom, steal only from social parasites, and invest a percentage of the stolen money into the anarchist cause.