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TIL: In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy

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M00W TIL that Hank Williams Jr’s signature beard, hat and sunglasses look are to disguise his disfigurement from when he fell almost 500 feet onto rock while mountain climbing in 1975
LQQMP TIL in 1999 actor Rebecca Jackson Mendoza survived a stroke caused by a severed aorta after being stabbed in the heart by her husband. By 2005 she made a full recovery and was able to play Breha Organa in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
P1p7Z TIL that, Nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prize without ever winning it, Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, also discovered the Matilda effect.
78olM TIL the "Adoption" episode of "You Can't Do That On Television" (which is the TV show that introduced green slime on Nickelodeon) was so controversial that it was banned in the U.S. The co-creator of the show later stated that the writers were unaware of the sensitive nature of the subject.
Ypywv TIL that the Republic of Ireland only refers to the football team, not the country. FIFA named them it because both Northern Ireland and the Republic claimed to be the official Ireland and both tried to qualify for the World Cup as Ireland fielding 4 of the same players.