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TIL that Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays"

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e0lDk TIL that Pope Formosus’ corpse was dug up from its grave and tried in 897 by his 2nd successor Pope Stephen IV for “perjury and having acceded to the papacy illegally.” His corpse, propped up on a throne and appointed a deacon as his “advocate,” was found guilty, rendering his papacy null and void.
j68La TIL after viewing a rough cut of Romancing the Stone & expecting it to flop, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Robert Zemeckis as their film's director. But RtS was a surprise hit as the 6th-highest-grossing film of 1984 ($115 m) & allowed Zemeckis to make Back to the Future.
R5Daw TIL that Lego's first animated TV show was titled "Edward and Friends" in 1987, created for the BBC2 network. Featuring Edward Elephant (of Lego's "Fabuland" theme), it used traditional stop-motion puppets instead of real Lego elements, and had a 5 minute runtime with only 26 episodes produced.
kane TIL that an autistic girl was given a computer after 11 years of not being able to communicate with the world around her and was able to provide incredible information about what t is truly like to live with severe autism
nvV7 TIL in 2011 a Russian man who attempted to rob a beauty salon was beaten into submission by the female owner, who is a black belt in karate, and kept as a sex slave for three days.