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TIL Fred Armisen was in a Chicago-based punk band called Trenchmouth

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O6L4 TIL Maleficent wasn’t originally in Sleeping Beauty. The girl fell asleep due to a splinter. After, her grieving father abandons her in the house. A King finds and rapes her, then also abandons her. While unconscious, she gives birth to twins who wake her. The King returns later and they marry.
k6B7 TIL in certain public toilets (concert halls, bars) the light is sometimes blue to make veins harder to see. This way drug users can’t inject themselves
eZwb TIL that by the 1600s, the Spanish royal family had a higher infant-mortality rate than their peasants.
VBWD4 TIL Ash Ketchum only caught 57 unique individual Pokémon over the course of the series, roughly 7% of the Pokémon available to him.
wk9E TIL In July 2011, due to the American debt-ceiling crisis, Apple’s financial reserves were briefly larger than those of the US Government