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TIL - The chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs created a magnitude 12 earthquake

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OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
WkPl8 TIL Mary Poppins actress Julie Andrews was given the honor of hosting the opening of Walt Disney World on October 1st, 1971. October 1st is also Andrews' birthday.
ZXWv TIL Weird Al Yankovic has asked permission from Prince to parody his songs on numerous occasions, and has always been refused. When the two were assigned to sit in the same row at an award’s show, he got a telegram from Prince’s lawyers demanding he not make eye contact
g4jW TIL I learned the Village People didn’t create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a “Y” and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
XE8JQ TIL in the rushed rampup to train military pilots during World War II from a thousand graduates in 1939 to hundreds of thousands by 1945, over 15,000 Americans died in nearly 30,000 crashes in stateside training alone