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TIL a guy is more likely to be gay if he went through puberty earlier

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b9M8p TIL In 2005 researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of a novel gene that causes cancer when mutated and tried naming the gene Pokemon but were promptly threatened with a lawsuit by Pokemon USA because the company "did not want Pokemon associated with cancer"
AGxx TIL That in 1984 Micheal Jackson Owned Half The Rights Of The Beatles Back Catalog Giving Him 50% Of All Royaltys Over Sir Paul Mccartney Who Still Had To Pay MJ To Even Perform Them Untill 2013.
ZppRa TIL that Prince Philip's 'affectionate' nickname for queen Elizabeth was 'cabbage.'
x6B50 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
ab8M TIL the Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.