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TIL Paramount made a PG version of Saturday Night Fever

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a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.
XmgP TIL a spear becomes a pike when it is long enough that it cannot be wielded with one hand in combat
69GJW Til about Harry Glickman who was called off of Mount St. Helens a day before the eruption. He then died a decade later during another volcanic eruption in Japan
gya9 TIL Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel where his own mother worked. He found an escape in watching movies because, “you were never in doubt as to why the women in them were screaming.”
nWd6b TIL that as far as 5,000 B.C., people believed the false notion that the unmistakable pain that we now recognize as a toothache was caused by a tiny tooth worm, which was thought to bore into its victims’ teeth.