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TIL that elephants are the only other mammal that have a chin.

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ep4mJ TIL Joseph Kerwin was the first American physician to go to space and had the first chance to study space medicine. Ready on Skylab with a minor surgery kit and drugs, a dislocated finger was the most serious ailment any of the three astronauts experienced when he was there
N7P0N TIL in the late 80s when Tipper Gore led Senate hearings to censor music lyrics against metal and rap bands, the PMRC star speaker was her favorite singer, John Denver. However, Denver stated he was against censorship, ruining their chances to win the legal battle.
VB91B TIL that Emperor Hirohito visited President Richard Nixon in Anchorage, Alaska in 1971.
LQp7p TIL: Popcorn is thousands of years old. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC.
9KpM TIL when the game Twister came out it was accused by its competitors of selling “sex in a box”. The game did not get popular until it was played on The Tonight Show in 1966