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TIL Kevin Bacon bribes DJ’s at weddings with cash so they won’t play Footloose

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0D1L TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”
OGQre TIL Ford actually didn't invent the first combustion engine car. Benz Patent-Motorwagen did in 1886 almost 30 years before Ford releases the Model T.
m15wv TIL Dr. Bronner left Germany in 1929 fearing the rise of Nazis but his parents refused. His last contact with them was in the form of a censored postcard saying, "You were right. —Your loving father."
MVOB TIL Since 2007, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, has been re-appropriated by squatters into a vast ‘vertical slum’ which now includes grocery stores, hairdressers, and an unlicensed dentist.
NXpL1 TIL that the Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch.