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TIL that “liver disturber” was 19th century slang for a large wang

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VMjYG TIL: Yosemite National Park in the US was named by the Mariposa Battalion, which forcibly removed all natives in the area. Mistakenly believing the tribe was named "Yosemite", the name was selected by a man struck by the land's beauty. Turns out, it means "They are Murderers" in the native language.
y4Dp TIL Emerson Moser worked for 37 years for Crayola, making 1.4 billion crayons. After retiring, he revealed he was colorblind.
vPY1R TIL A 2004 British reality show selected nine contestants for their suggestibility, tricked them into thinking they were flown to Russia, then had them compete to become space tourists. The "winners" were placed on a simulator and tricked into thinking they were in space for five days.
LkJx9 TIL that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover possessed one of the world's largest collection of pornography, both for blackmail and for personal titillation purposes
P149J Today I Learned that the "Hamster Dance" song was originally sampled from Disney's "Robin Hood".