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TIL "Road Rash" is an actual medical name for a type of "friction burn" that motorcyclists would commonly face.

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XEPeX TIL Oscar Wilde was a wildly popular Irish writer in the late 1800's. A rival hired a detective to catch him in "acts of sodomy and gross indecency". He served 2 years hard labor in prison for his "crimes". He suffered terribly and almost starved to death. He died at age 46.
VQKG TIL that as President, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit.
WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.
db9d TIL the first actor for the alcoholic Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles lost the role because he was an alcoholic
jNV6a TIL that Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock´s fifty two year friendship began when Woodstock and his brother hatched from eggs in a nest that their mother made on top of Snoopy´s belly, a year later in 1967, Woodstock came back to perch on Snoopy´s nose, thus beginning their long fellowship.