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TIL Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired after she suggested that masturbation should be taught in schools

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VMOGk TIL that Robin Williams was persuaded to star in Aladdin, after animators showed him several test sequences of the Genie performing his stand-up routines. He was impressed by one sequence in particular; of the Genie growing another head to argue with himself.
xYyD TIL that “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is onown as “The Disaster March” at circuses, because it is only ever played to signify an emergency without alarming the audience.
5VKpn TIL India's total casualties in WWII are larger than the UK's and USA's combined.
X6nk TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.
PYPZE TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.