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TIL Joe Rogan and Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance are Cousins

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v1Pl7 TIL about the 1936 soviet movie 'Circus.' A single white mother with a black child flees racism in America & follows the circus to Russia. At its climax, the cast sings to her baby in every language of the USSR.
ePon TIL a Y2K bug caused mothers’ ages to be calculated incorrectly, leading to 154 faulty Down’s Syndrome tests being sent out, which in turn led to two abortions and four failures to discover the syndrome.
AX6x TIL that strontium, a chemical relative of calcium, can be given to increase bone density, fractures, and promote bone regrowth, essentially acting as calcium in the bones better than calcium itself does
J1J9V TIL Hollywood Legend Marlene Dietrich's list of sexual conquests included Gary Cooper, John Wayne, John F. Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, and female speedboat racer Marion Carstairs
b9aBp TIL that the Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M’s is… five