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TIL, Gene Gene The Dancing Machine, beloved figure on The Gong Show, lost both of his legs due to diabetes.

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YB9Z TIL that Oreo cookies are actually the knock-off brand of another company, Hydrox.
R7av4 TIL that in Japan, it takes up to 20 years of school to become a sushi chef, which is years longer than it takes to become a doctor.
WBWd TIL Robin Williams and Robert De Niro were with John Belushi on the night of his death
NBw1 TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.