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TIL that ferrets can die if they don't have sex.

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jnyE TIL Paul Reubens tested out the appeal of the Pee Wee Herman character by responding to a cattle call audition for the Dating Game. They called him to appear on the show before he even made it back home.
8o78 TIL that thalidomide, the infamous morning sickness drug that caused severe birth defects, was never approved for use in the US because of a single reviewer at the FDA who didn’t think it had been tested enough, and resisted industry pressure to approve the drug anyway.
5VJxB TIL that on the I Love Lucy TV show, Ricky Ricardo's full name was Enrique "Ricky" Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha III.
wLlgM TIL the French government didn't admit to its complicity in the Holocaust until 1995, i.e. 40 years after the Nazis were defeated.
5Y1b9 TIL prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribes had an average group limit of 50 people. Incidentally, modern research shows that in the video game World of Warcraft, maximum group player cohesiveness occurs at a limit of 50 players.