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TIL that John Rock, one of the creators of the contraceptive pill, was a devout Catholic

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6E09Z TIL that registrations of Chihuahuas actually DECREASED after those “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” commercials in the 90s
Pwjw TIL in 1991 Maurice Krafft, a french Volcanologist, was filmed saying “I am never afraid because I have seen so many eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”. He was killed during an eruption the very next day alongside his wife on Mt. Unzen in Japan.
e0ZDk TIL Ashton Kutcher holds a Guinness World Record as the first person to gain 1 million followers on Twitter.
DjyJ TIL Robert Moses, who developed much of New York City, deliberately built overpasses that couldn’t accommodate city buses in order to keep poor minorities from being able to access his beach developments.
DQQgr TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite