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TIL that Joss Whedon of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", "Firefly" and "The Avengers" re-wrote "Toy Story" and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay because of it.

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Z98G TIL: Firstborn children usually have a higher IQ than their siblings
vPBp8 TIL: Abraham Lincoln told his biographer, friend, and law partner of 18 years, William Hearndon, how he had been infected with syphilis in 1835 or 1836 (by a prostitute). Hearndon, believing both Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln had syphilis, suspected it in the premature death of 3 Lincoln children
wRZY TIL of Eduard Bloch the Jewish doctor of the Hitler family who treated Hitler’s mother before her death in 1907. Hitler granted him his “everlasting gratitude” and called him “noble Jew”. He was put under special protection by the Gestapo until he could move to America in 1940.
Brdxr TIL that depictions of knights fighting snails were common in medieval texts. And no one really knows why.
pBMe TIL that 8% of Asian men and .05% of men in the world are descendants of Genghis Khan