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TIL The Statue of Liberty’s copper skin is about the thickness of 2 pennies.

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egZg TIL that in 2011 the head of the American College of Surgeons was forced to resign after he wrote a Valentine’s Day editorial touting the mood-enhancing effects of semen on women during unprotected sex, which was completely supported by the research he cited in said editorial.
lOEG TIL a gamer once complained on the Runic Games forums that a specific camera effect made a game unplayable for her due to a rare eye condition. Mere hours later, and early on a Sunday morning, the developers released a patch that added a user toggle for the effect
X0MmX TIL that is was not until 2000 that the US census allowed individuals to report more than one ethnic identity.
m84y TIL in the 19th century they made a childrens medicine with pure morphine
yQGAV TIL in 1993 on Seinfeld, Elaine wanted her boyfriend to change his name from a serial killer’s (Joel Rifkin) to something normal. Reading a football almanac, she suggests O.J., who is arrested eight months later.