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TIL Chuck E. Cheese is no longer a rat and has officially been a mouse since 2012

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wonM7 TIL about Genie, a feral child who was tied up in her father's bathroom for most of her childhood and never developed the ability to speak. Despite massive advances in Genie's social skills and non-verbal communication - Genie never learned how to acquire language after her rescue.
x6VVw TIL when Fox resumed late night talk show programming in 1993 - after a five year hiatus - their first choice for a host was Dolly Parton. She declined and suggested Chevy Chase for the role. His show would last five weeks.
VjrB TIL the male urethra produces a spiral stream of urine that has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus (Where the urine exits the body). The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females.
ADPEo TIL the political "Left" and "Right" picked those sides in 1789, when French revolutionaries in the National Assembly decided which side of the room they would sit on. "So as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp." -Baron de Gauville
xVBBw TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore.