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TIL that the Doctor who said that the MMR vaccine caused Autism (Andrew Wakefield) was paid £400,000 to do so by a group of lawyers looking to sue the manufacturers.

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ANwog TIL that there are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way [3 trillion to 400 billion]
D7Kp TIL that in 2006, all outdoor advertisements were banned in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Within a year, 15000 billboards were taken down in South America’s largest city.
5Yk09 TIL Mexico issued a ban known as "Avandarazo" in response to the Festival de Avándaro, forbidding the recording of Rock music by national groups, the prohibition of its sales in retail stores, live rock concerts and airplay of rock songs. The ban lasted for many years, gradually lifted in the 1980s.
lYN1 TIL that Daveigh Chase (little girl from The Ring) has committed animal abuse on a dog, even going as far as to leave it abandoned on a Nevada highway with a cigarette burn on it’s neck. Her boyfriend successfully took the dog’s new family to court and retained custody.
KNZ4 TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to draft the Declaration of Independence for fear that he might conceal a joke in it.