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TIL Eartha Kitt - known as the original singer of "Santa Baby" and the voice of Izma in The Emperor's New Groove - was blacklisted by the CIA after telling Lady Bird Johnson, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."

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kOaa1 TIL Steve Jobs once argued that’s it completely unnatural to touch the screen on a PC. He reportedly said people's arms would fatigue and called the idea “ergonomically horrible.”
ne9eo TIL not only there was a 'Rat Pack' and a 'Brat Pack' but there was also a 'Black Pack' that was founded by Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall and featured Robert Townsend, Arsenio Hall, Paul Mooney and Keenen Ivory Wayans. The only white member was Pee-Wee Herman.
MGGW TIL that Miss USA 1957, Leona Gage was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two children. Here she is on The Ed Sullivan Show.
OoMK4 TIL that Chimney sweeps' carcinoma was a deadly cancer of the scrotum that affected chimney sweeps, as young as 8 years old; one treatment was to cut it off without anesthesia - and another was an arsenic paste.
d8mWB TIL in 1923, a dog named Bobbie was separated from his owners and lost. Six months later, Bobbie appeared on their doorstep mangy and scrawny with feet worn to the bone; he walked over 2500 miles (4000 km) of plains, desert and mountains an average of approximately 14 miles (23 km) per day.