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TIL Courtney Cox is the first person on tv to say the word "period" for menstruations

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GAy5N TIL the Big Bang got its name from a Cambridge astronomer who thought the theory was bullshit. That man also discovered that elements were created inside star cores by nuclear fusion and believed that life originates from outside Earth .
8a67K TIL that in the 70's and 80's, Walgreens also owned and operated a chain of restaurants called Wag's
x6kxb TIL About Taro and Jiro, a pair of Sakhalin Huskies who survived 11 months in Antarctica after being chained to the other 13 members of their sled team and abandoned.
PZBV TIL 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets, this prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.
R5Mgw TIL For eight months during World War II Chester Keefer oversaw all civilian use of penicillin. The period of rationing had Keefer review every case and decide if a patient would receive the drug. Keefer's work gained him the nickname 'penicillin czar'.