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TIL in 1994, the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service was fired for saying masturbation should be encouraged in order to prevent people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.

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E1jxP TIL that Beethoven didn't know how to read a metronome and that's why his tempo indications are slower than what feels right (+-12bpm). After decades of theorising about it, turns out he was just writing down the number on the bottom of the metronome's upper weight, not the top.
4xmg TIL: Teddy Roosevelt actually watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession in 1865 when he was 6. In fact, there’s a photograph with a young Roosevelt sitting on a balcony as the casket went by.
O0Je TIL Kevin Warwick is the first cyborg ever by getting wires surgically implanted to his nervous system
R75b4 TIL that the episode 'Paedogeddon!' of satirical series Brass Eye received nearly 3000 complaints. Some politicians condemned the episode, but later admitted never seeing it, including former Home Secretary David Blunkett who said he hadn't seen it because he was 'on holiday at the time and blind'.
gN69 TIL $100,000,000 lawsuit claiming the film Sister Act was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet. Disney offered $1,000,000 to settle of out court the but the plaintiffs declined. Eventually the judge found in favor of Disney and the other defendants, the plaintiffs got nothing.