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TIL that the Tourette Syndrome Association released a statement after the South Park episode “Le Petit Tourette” where they complimented the show on being “well researched” and that it “served as a clever device” to get accurate information to the public.

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Zmgo TIL a man once required surgery for what doctors call “penile fracture” after “running across the room and trying to penetrate his wife with a flying leap.”
VMNXm TIL a woodpeckers tongue is so long, it actually wraps around its skull providing further insulation to the brain in warding them from concussions
ADjen TIL Archaeologists excavating a cave in the mountains of central Mexico have unearthed evidence that people occupied the area more than 30,000 years ago — suggesting that humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than thought
nbBB TIL Lockheed Martin accidentally dropped a NASA satellite while turning it sideways, causing $135M in damages
rWlw TIL that in 1898, a Bayer businessman named a drug they’d developed, “Heroin,” as it was expected to be a heroic cure for tuberculosis. Ironically, illicit heroin use later contributed to an epidemic resurgence of the disease.