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TIL Because of their weight and height, adults using a Slip N Slide risk serious back and neck injuries that have resulted in paralysis for some

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rexo TIL that until 1990, there was a McDonald’s store that operated outside the control of McDonalds corporation. It was franchised by the original McDonald brothers, and was completely independent.
MRa TIL A psychiatrist in the mid-1900s performed lobotomies with an icepick through the eye socket. Walter Freeman became so efficient he needed only 10 minutes per procedure.
d8Yl7 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson had no name for the first three months of his life. He was simply called "the baby" because his parents could not agree on a name, but one morning his mother refused to make breakfast until a name was agreed on. He was then named Lyndon Baines Johnson after a lawyer.
Oo56Y TIL Prodigy's video for "Smack My Bitch Up" depicts a night out in London, graphically portraying snorting cocaine, using heroin, drinking and driving, violence, vomiting, vandalism, nudity and a sex scene, all filmed from a first-person perspective . It was banned everywhere.
e0o55 TIL in her youth, at school, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin attempted to test the efficacy of prayer by dividing her exam group in two groups, one using prayer and the other being a control group. The latter got better marks