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TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly

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LjLZ TIL White Hands is a nonprofit organization in Japan that has a service called Ejaculation Help where medical sex workers help people with disabilities reach orgasms.
LQNRd TIL Sharks first appeared around 420 million years ago, which means they were around before the dinosaurs
5VxYD TIL that an Illinois high school English teacher told two students, "Neither one of you will ever learn to write". Robert St. John, one of the students, became a famous journalist with many news scoops, including the Japanese surrender in WW2. The other student was Ernest Hemingway.
JYnJ8 TIL that jazz legend Dave Brubeck was nearly expelled from college because he could not read music. The college was afraid it would cause a scandal, and agreed to let Brubeck graduate only after he had promised to never teach piano.
M4r7 TIL that in 1999, Google was almost sold for $750,000 because the founders needed more time to study their schoolwork.