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TIL due to a 4 year old boy misunderstanding his mother, young children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis are taught to say "65 roses" to help them pronounce the condition.

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oB9Z8 TIL Brian Boitano went to the South Park movie alone, had never met Stone or Parker and felt surreal when the theater reacted with appreciative laughter to the question of What Would Brian Boitano Do and the song along with it. It has since become a big part of his life that he seems to embrace it
1aRxr TIL NASA Vehicle Assembly building interior volume is so vast that it has its own weather, including "rain clouds form[ing] below the ceiling on very humid days"
r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”
OG97R TIL That, during the production of Star Trek VI Kim Catrall, who played Valeris, did a nude photo shoot on the Enterprise bridge wearing only Vulcan ears. Upon hearing about it the photos were personally destroyed by Leonard Nimoy.
9YLRX Today I learned, you can legally call gay hair dressers “faggots” in France!