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TIL Roseanne Barr pitched a version of UK series "Absolutely Fabulous" starring Carrie Fisher and Bond villain Barbara Carrera for ABC. According to the network in 1996, "they rejected the show’s original sex-and-drugs-packed script." HBO was also interested, according to Barr's then publicist.

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pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
1LPd TIL that in 2015 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks
gMQ5D TIL that IMDB's rating system goes to 11 for "This is Spinal Tap". All other movies only go to 10.
R7oJ1 TIL Hugo Boss was a Nazi party member and a founding member of the SS. His company made the Black SS uniforms and later made uniforms for the Waffen SS and the army.
GXAN TIL that a 19-year old Dutch teenager created an invention that could clean up the seas in just 5 years instead of 79 000 years required with the technical means available today