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xgMb TIL in 1994, the Surgeon General of the U.S. was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”
bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
LkPxV TIL left handed people were retrained to write with their right hands in certain schools, even into the 1970s. This caused a stutter for some of the students.
rNybM TIL Matt Groening named the main members of the Simpsons family (apart from Bart) after his own family (ex. Homer Groening is Matt's father)
xVKBk TIL about Roy Benavidez, the real life Rambo and Medal of Honor recipient, Who jumped out of a chopper with only a knife against thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers, saving the lives of his fellow soldiers while making sure no intel fell into enemy hands.