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TIL that Columbia Records had to force the Beastie Boys to rename their album License to Ill. The original album name: “Don’t Be a Faggot”

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ejM6 TIL Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that handwashing cut maternity death by 90%, laying the foundation for modern techniques and becoming known as ‘The Savior of Mothers’. Disbelieved by his peers, he was put in an asylum and died after being beaten, aged 47. Almost nobody attended his funeral.
OG0VY TIL that sharks don’t make sounds. Across 400-500 species, no one has ever found an organ even capable of producing sound.
xVd4B TIL Dennis Wilson was the only member of The Beach Boys who actually surfed. He drowned at age 39.
9wN1D TIL of the cockeyed squid - a species with one normal eye for looking up and one giant swollen eye for looking down.
d8m4Q TIL that Harrison Ford, who'll play Indiana Jones in a 2021 sequel, is actually a year older than the actor who played "old" Indy on the 1990s TV series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."