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DKQJ TIL Forrest Gump is being preserved as a culturally significant part of human history.
Jgp8 TIL that in season 1 episode 6 of the Dr Who series, it is mentioned that a meteor would crash in Russia in 2013. The episode was aired in 2005.
X06g6 TIL of the origin of the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown." Legend says that Cooter lived on the dividing line between north and south in the American Civil War. He didn't want to fight, so he stayed drunk all the time to make himself ineligible for military service.
NXXbb TIL that Alzheimer’s disease can be caused by a brain immune response to herpes infection. This theory dates to the early 1900s, but was ignored because the scientist was Jewish, while Alzheimer, who named the disease, was German.
X0EBj TIL that nine-banded armadillos always give birth to quadruplets- a single fertilized egg splits into four identical embryos.