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TIL in 2018 Webster's Dictionary added the word "embiggen" from the Simpsons season 7

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ADKYo TIL in 1987 director John Landis was acquitted on 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter after actor Vic Morrow and two children aged 6 and 7 were decapitated on the set of The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.
xaND TIL during Napoleon Bonaparte’s autopsy, his penis was removed and has since exchanged hands a number of times. It was last inherited by a New Jersey woman who’s father kept it in a suitcase under his bed for 30 years.
78ra7 TIL about a Madagascan lemur called Aye-aye which has a structurally unique and long middle finger that it uses to pull out grubs and insects out of trees
6EGK7 TIL the US Public Health Service is a uniformed service that fights in the war against viruses and disease. It has its own official song, and the highest ranked officer in the service is the Surgeon General.
0wJnN TIL that during the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut David Scott carried out a version of the classic Galileo's hypothesis by dropping a feather and a steel hammer at the same time on the surface of the moon. The objects took the same amount of time falling and there by proving the hypothesis.