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TIL that, due to an infection in his youth, famed agricultural scientist George Washington Carver had such a high pitched voice that it “startled all who met him.”

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6gOY TIL that identical twin brothers had sex with the same women on the same day that resulted in a child. Paternity tests showed each male was both the father and the uncle of the child thus the identify of the true father is unknown.
wAGJ TIL father of Behaviorism B.F. Skinner once successfully conditioned the hand movements of a distinguished psychologist who was in the middle of arguing against Skinner’s work
p8QGp TIL a then unknown Bob Dylan starred in the television play “Madhouse on Castle Street” on the BBC in 1963. It was later junked and no copies have survived. It is considered a lost artwork.
xVOro TIL an off-duty Brazilian policeman in uniform had a cell phone in his back pocket when he visited his parents to do laundry. His parents were being held hostage by 2 robbers; when the policeman turned to flee, the robbers shot him in the buttock, but his Nokia Lumia 520 phone stopped the bullet.
arjb TIL Mao Zedong ordered the people of China to kill sparrows because they steal grain. Since sparrows also eat insects, their absence caused a locust epidemic that ravaged crops and killed millions of people.