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TIL Dr Watson ejaculates 11 times throughout the Sherlock Holmes stories. Ejaculate being used to mean exclaimed - '“Thank God!” I ejaculated from my very heart.'

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8bRV TIL that Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white school in the south, attended class by herself because parents of white students would not let them learn with her, and she ate only food she brought from home because a woman repeatedly threatened to poison her
e0Xg4 TIL Larry Bird was once bored so he played against the Portland Trailblazers with his left hand; he finished the game with 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists.
E1rpV TIL about Project 100,000. A controversial Vietnam War era program by the US DoD to draft 100,000 low-IQ men a year for the Vietnam War. Dubbed, “Macnamara’s Morons” more than 5,000 were killed in the war, 3x the rate when compared to other soldiers.
16r6X TIL: Blindness is not all or nothing…it is a spectrum!
OovVe TIL The little yellow dots in Pack-an are meant to be cookies.