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TIL Conan O'Brien was expected to become the showrunner for The Simpsons before he was selected as the new Late Night host in 1993

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VJA4 TIL Pakistan, Iran, and 12 other Muslim countries support the teaching of evolution, including human evolution.
rNmjy TIL 15th century Korea developed the Geobukseon (turtle ship), a warship roofed with spiked plates to prevent boarding actions. Each Geobukseon was also designed with a dragon head on the bow that hid a cannon or could release smoke to inspire terror or cover ship movements.
e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
XEwE8 TIL The "Holbrook Holiday" is a creative punishment invented by an Ohio judge. Instead of a standard jail term, he takes a holiday away from the criminal for the next several years by making them report to jail for the holiday
RR4l TIL that Rabbis sometimes suck baby penis in a ritual called metzitzah b’peh