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TIL former NBA Champion and Chicago Bulls player Horace Grant continued to wear sports-goggles after receiving Lasik surgery to help kids who were teased over wearing glasses.

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QnQ9 TIL that nitrous oxide was used primarily as a recreational drug in English parties for over 4 decades before doctors saw its potential in medicine.
16oKD TIL that, until 2003, the French military provided 'mobile brothels' to troops on the frontline of world wars, among other conflicts
4aKb TIL in 2008 a neo-Nazi group adopted a stretch of Missouri highway; much to the chagrin of state officials who couldn’t afford a lengthy legal battle. Instead, they renamed the highway after Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who fled the Nazis and became a prominent theologian and civil rights advocate
yQxKw TIL there’s no scientific difference between pigeons and doves — the difference boils down to linguistic traditions.
5EwP TIL that Mr. Potato Head got its name because it was originally a set of plastic pieces that you were supposed to stick into a real vegetable