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TIL: The actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction is the voice of Herme's from Futurama, Samurai Jack & more!

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WrYB TIL that a fainting room was a private room, of which its main features/furniture were fainting couches, used during the Victorian era, to make women more comfortable during the home treatment of female hysteria. Fainting rooms were used for more privacy during home treatment pelvic massages.
WLoo TIL Blowing into your Nintendo cartridges didn’t actually help, it only damaged them
R9o7 TIL in The Netherlands, people swear with diseases. Get someone angry enough and they may wish syphilis on you. (Or cancer, tuberculosis, smallpox, etc.) The more serious the disease, the more seriously you have angered them.
69eYW TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune.
E1BK0 TIL that in 1985, Wong-Staal became the first person to clone HIV and to generate a genetic mapping of the virus which would be used for the research and design of treatments for AIDS.