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TIL that back to the future was rejected by Disney they said a mother falling in love with her son is not appropriate for a family film

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VeBZ TIL a man with cerebral palsy was forced to crawl off of his flight when United Airlines staff failed to provide him with the proper assistance.
DD7Y TIL men are 6 times more likely to leave their wife if she gets seriously ill than the other way around (20.8% vs. 2.9%)
QNXRL TIL that cats have a non-lethal terminal velocity
NX0Y1 TIL that the Portuguese Man-of-War is a colony of organisms not just one big scary jellyfish
a5M9 TIL that a school in Poland is named after an Indian Maharaja, in honour of him providing shelter and free education to hundreds of Polish women and children after they had to escape Poland due to the World War 2.