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TIL Dr. Nick Riviera (Hi everybody! Hi Dr. Nick!) is based on Elivis's real doctor, George Nichopoulos (Dr. Nic). He was "indicted on 14 counts of over prescribing drugs to Presley and several other patients."

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Y5Dd TIL that between 1900-1973, over 100 boys died at a Florida reform school for delinquents as a result of sexual and physical abuse, torture, beatings, and even outright murder from staff. The school only recently closed in 2011.
VMPVk TIL a VA man sued himself for $5m, claiming that he violated his own civil rights by committing crimes and being sent to prison. He asked the state to pay the $5m on his behalf since he was a ward of the state.
e8a6 TIL that ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0, a word processor application that was released in the mid-80s and runs on DOS to write all his novels.
X0D98 TIL Teddy Roosevelt's 2nd son Kermit Roosevelt joined his father's Amazon expedition and had a river named after him, resigned from US Army in 1917 to join the British Forces to fight in WWI. To join the first fight in Finland/Norway, he took help of Churchill to secure a commission in British Army.
mgrO TIL that research has shown that adult playfulness increases a person’s sexiness