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TIL that Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd dusted off their Ghostbusters costumes to visit a terminally ill child who was a fan of the film and wanted to meet them.

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ep0lD TIL mammalian placentas have the genes of both parents. The mother's side of the placenta contains her genes but on the embryo's side are paternally imprinted causing what animal breeders call the "Paternal Grandsire Effect" causing certain traits to skip a generation.
KON96 TIL Despite Kermit the Frog often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet "star" as a recurring character on The Jimmy Dean Show, first appearing in a telecast on September 26, 1963.
kOR91 TIL in 1980, Monica Myers, mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking her towns sewage tanks. She fell in and drowned in 15ft of human waste.
D0gv TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that his son rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
5V7Zn TIL the world's first Ball Pit was at Seaworld in San Diego