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TIL there is a Hebrew equivalent to the Yiddish phrase "oy vey" (a phrase expressing dismay or exasperation) - it's "oy vavoy"

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YNa7 TIL Rick and Morty largely only exists because Bill Cosby’s lawyers sent a cease and desist to Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon in 2005 over an internet series called ‘House of Cosbys’.
9YAE7 TIL that the Soviet gold medalist Elena Mukhina was forced back to practice with an unhealed broken leg, which didn't give her enough power to do a flip and broke her neck on the mat making her quadriplegic for life in 1980. After the accident she said "Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics".
DXRJ TIL that married women drink more than their unmarried counterparts, whereas the opposite is true for men, according to a 2012 study.
woJg6 TIL There was a home-made cryogenic “facility” in Colorado with one person in it since 1993.
gEgA TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.