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TIL Pakistan plans to build an amusement park on the land formerly occupied by Osama bin Laden's compound

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748P TIL thatin 1994, the Surgeon General of the U.S. was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”
x6Jp0 TIL of Anthony Ray, producer and son of famous Hollywood director Nicholas Ray, who was once married to his father's ex-wife--actress Gloria Grahame--his former stepmother. Since Grahame had a child named Timothy Ray, with Nicholas Ray, that made Anthony his stepfather and brother at the same time.
697aJ TIL Lincoln made no mention of Pilgrims, Plymouth or Natives when he codified Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
7VpZ TIL that the reason why Rebel Wilson got into acting was because she contracted malaria and hallucinated that she was an Oscar winning actress.
b9xQ4 Today I learned that most gelatin ( used to make gummy things and jello) is made from boiling cow's skin, ligaments and bone