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TIL an apparent recent increase in the prevalence of childhood autism may in fact, not be an actual increase but it's rather a reflection of a rising awareness of the condition and improved systems for identifying autistic children.

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94YD TIL Spain’s Paralympic basketball team were ordered to return their gold medals won in Sydney in 2000 after nearly all of their players were found to have no disability.
Jnj8 TIL that the original script for Good Will Hunting contained a scene in which Robin Williams gives Stellan Skarsgård a blowjob. This was because Damon and Affleck knew studio execs never read scripts and the scene wasn’t mentioned until Harvey Weinstein read it thinking it was hilarious
9YpOG TIL in the 1946 movie It's A Wonderful Life when the pharmacist hits young George Baily (Bob Anderson) in anger and blood comes out of the child's ear, that was not a special effect. The pharmacist really smacked him so hard that the child's ear started bleeding.
BrE8x TIL that Olga of Kiev, murdered over 5000 people in revenge for the murder of her husband, converted to Christianity and became a Saint.
8eXkK TIL that Tex-Mex has surpassed Italian as the most popular food genre in the United States