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TIL Graham crackers were originally invented to prevent masturbation

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7BgP TIL that in 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald and Goofy under threat of legal action
nedBo TIL about Joe Arridy, who had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row”. He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
DQXpY TIL In 1965 part of the training to be a Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab where they had to shoot a Dog (Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then treat the wound successfully
EgKWP TIL: Irish is an "endangered language" with less than 80,000 native speakers left
g5PA TIL when a German hacker stole the source code for Half Life 2, Gabe Newell tricked him in to thinking Valve wanted to hire him as an “in-house security auditor”. He was given plane tickets to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI