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

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5VwB TIL a man invented a bicycle made our of cardboard that he can sell to the masses $20 a piece.
ExVX TIL that all cats with 3 or more colors are females
ldaB TIL in 2010 a crocodile smuggled onto an airplane in Africa escaped from its bindings, causing a panic and a plane crash. Only 1 person and the crocodile survived the impact.
0wrmL TIL id Software made a prototype PC port of Super Mario 3 and showed it to Nintendo, who declined permission to fully develop it, leading to them making Commander Keen, which then lead to them being able to publish Wolfenstein 3D, and finally lead them to creating DooM.
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