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TIL Bugs Bunny dressed in drag over 40 times in his animated career.

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ZpxDY TIL out of 465 documented cases of medical self-experimentation, 8 cases resulted in the self-experimenter’s death. 7 resulted in their winning a Nobel Prize. Another 5 won a Nobel for unrelated work.
d8n4j TIL of Osborne v Ohio, in which the United states supreme court ruled 6-3 that possession of child pornography can be banned. Justices William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, and Thurgood Marshall dissented, arguing that possession of child porn is a constitutional right.
Brj9r TIL the margarita so named because it is based on a popular Mexican drink, the Daisy. "Margarita" is Spanish for "daisy".
8eKoZ TIL the walls are moving, not the floor, in Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.