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TIL Disney removed the Tarzan character from their parks because women kept pinching the butts of the loincloth-wearing actors who played him.

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7Jdp TIL Richard Nixon Smuggled 3 pounds of Marijuana into the U.S. for Louis Armstrong (1.3 kilos)
wojM8 TIL that in 2020, a bizarre new type of extinct deep-sea plesiosaur was discovered in Norway. Despite being 5 to 5.5 meters (16-18 ft) long, the marine reptile's head was tiny, being only 20 centimeters (8 inches) long. It also had a small brain, extremely large eyes, and likely ate squid.
OoDJ1 TIL Bonobos form all-female coalitions to target violent males as a counterstrategy against harassment.
p8MNe TIL that the phrase "out of sorts" is most often attributed to typesetting and refers to running out of an individual metal type called "sorts" that printers used during Tudor times in England, though the phrase itself predates that.
AD5oB Today I Learned that Hobo, tramp and bum are not synonyms rather a strict hierarchy: Hobos travel and occasionally work; tramps just travel and bums do neither.