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TIL Jenna Jameson Worked At Disneyland Before Starting Her Porn Career

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NXrLb TIL at a 2005 congressional hearing, mentions of the Sedan nuclear test was incorrectly transcribed as "Sudan" in the record. Sudanese officials later stated that they "take this issue seriously and with extreme importance" and allegedly blamed the U.S. for raising cancer rates among their people.
GADaJ TIL heterochrony – the mechanism by which giraffes acquired their long necks and us our big brains
KQAB TIL that the shooting of US President James Garfield in July 1881 directly led to the invention of both the metal detector and indoor air conditioning
nW5Dd TIL: WWF Wrestler Kurt Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist
9Y8oM TIL of the Caterpillar Club, which consists solely of people who have jumped out of a failing airplane and survived by deploying their parachute. The club was founded by Leslie Irvin, who survived ejecting out of his plane in 1919, and every member is sent a gold caterpillar pin with amethyst eyes.