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TIL that Curious George was originally supposed to appear in Forrest Gump (1994) until Robert Zemeckis cut him: 'That monkey's gotta go'

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Z8ZWG TIL that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but never tried to make an antibiotic out of it. It was not until a decade later that a man named Howard Florey found Fleming's little-known paper and realized the mold's potential. Florey's work is estimated to have saved up to 200,000,000 lives.
N7xgJ TIL about Sgt. Siwash, the beer drinking duck who fought with the Marines in WWII, and received citations for battling a Japanese rooster. Siwash passed away in 1954 due to liver disease and their wake was held in a Chicago taxidermists shop.
xRmB TIL that a Portland dairy was forced to pay staff over $10 million in back pay because of a missing Oxford comma in the state overtime laws.
7re17 TIL Bagpipes were considered weapons of war up until 1996
pRN8 TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.