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TIL the study that began the “vaccines cause autism” hysteria was proven to be a COMPLETE fraud

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xV07 TIL when Galileo presented his version of the telescope to the City of Venice in 1609, he did so at least partially because he needed the money to help support a throng of illegitimate children.
NWJJ TIL someone anonymously sent St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a $1 million-winning McDonald’s Monopoly piece. Although McDonald’s does not allow the transfer of prizes, they had waived the rule.
W709A TIL Vincent Price was "greylisted" under McCarthyism in the 1950s for having been a prewar "premature anti-Nazi", and after being unable to find work for a year, agreed to requests by the FBI that he sign a "secret oath" to save his career.
R7kL6 TIL Tony Hawk rejected Activision's buyout deal for the permanent use of his name and likeness on the original THPS game, but accepted a royalty deal in which he would earn a percentage of every copy of the game sold. He earned ten times the original offer within two years
jNyDX TIL The last mammoths died around 3,600 years ago, when the great pyramids of Giza were already 1,000 years old