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TIL that Bill Nye's family has a history of a neurological disorder called ataxia and the reason he decided not to have kids was to avoid passing down the condition to them.

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7vRx TIL that Harry Potter was the most banned book in the US for 2001 and 2002, for the reasons of being “anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence”.
7r4ep TIL: Due to their thick, muscular tail, Kangaroos cannot walk forward or backward. They can only jump forward.
Y7xkG TIL of St. Peter Stiftskulinarium, a restaurant in Austria that's believed to have been open since 803 making it the oldest still active restaurant in the world. Its clientele are believed to have included Christopher Columbus, Johann Georg Faust, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
wZAE TIL that Betty Crocker included the instruction to ‘add an egg’ to their cake mix because it was too easy to make and housewives had felt guilty using it.
9Y1m7 TIL of how the U.S. Government set up the first bank for "newly emancipated Black communities" after the Civil War; but in the 1870s, Henry Cooke & Ulysses S. Grant got away with scamming the Freedman's Bank out of $75,000 ($1.77M in 2020), crippling the bank into bankruptcy...