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TIL, that the first President born in the US, Spoke Dutch as his first language

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Me6LV TIL about Eugene Shoemaker. He was a geologist in the mid 1900's who wanted to go to the moon. He failed the medical exam to go to the moon, but he still helped train astronauts on Apollo 11,12, 13. After dying in a car crash his ashes made it to the moon. To this day they're still there.
Rbll TIL falling while water skiing or on a slide can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina in an injury called “water ski douche”
LVeP TIL Stephen King’s inspiration for “Carrie” hit him while cleaning the girl’s bathroom at his alma mater as a Janitor. He also abandoned the story after disliking his 1st draft, but his wife found it in the trash, read it, and implored him to try again.
0d9ZR TIL about Nobel Disease, when Nobel Prize winners come out with ludicrous or objectionable theories in areas outside their area of expertise later on in life. Example: Montagnier, who discovered HIV, believe that DNA gave off electromagnetic signals :0
6PvY TIL Minnie Schönberg, the mother of the Marx brothers, upon hearing that farmers were exempt from being drafted, bought a farm and forced the brothers to work on it so they wouldn’t be called to fight during WWI.