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TIL Martin Lawrence is permanently banned from hosting SNL. The comedian hosted once in 1994 and performed a monologue where he criticized the vaginal hygiene of women. The rant, in which he went into detail about what he felt was a drop in feminine hygiene standards, will never be re-aired.

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0w55j TIL that male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilised eggs in their mouth to think they’ve dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.
awx7A TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.
78DJL TIL Home Alone was responsible for making Kevin the number one name in Germany in 1991. Later, the name became associated with low social status in the country, which led to the coining of the German word, Kevinismus, meaning the negative preconception German people give to trendy exotic names
bNE7 TIL that babies can tell the faces of lemurs and other primates apart, but lose this ability as they get older and specialize on human faces
X0GdQ TIL there is no official Calvin and Hobbes merchandise besides the compilation books. Bill Watterson was vehemently against merchandising his characters and even went as far as to say, "Only thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise."