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TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap

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W7MW4 TIL that during puberty more melanin is released by certain cells, causing the penis and nipples to get darker than the other parts of the body.
9YgnB TIL Kate Winslet had a chart-topping song in 2001 titled, “What If.”
R5pEa TIL Karolina Olsson was a Swedish woman who supposedly fell into "hibernation" at age 14. She remained that way for 32 years and 42 days. Upon awakening, she did not recognize her family but remembered everything she had ever learned.
4XGrX TIL that Steven Thrasher was awarded free cigarettes for life from Phillip Morris as part of a settlement following being shot by his supervisor in 1974 and had to sue when they tried to stop.
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