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TIL that in 1969 when Sesame Street first started, it was actually aimed towards an older audience and was labeled “Adult Only”. Cookie Monster was smoking a pipe and Grover was participating in civil disobedience with hippies

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j6PjM TIL there is a guy who walks around the city of Melbourne with a giant carrot. He is called Carrot Man.
GYP55 TIL that the reflex of sneezing because of sunlight is called the Photic Sneeze Reflex. It is also known as Autosomal Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst, which can be abbreviated as ACHOO.
1abW4 TIL famed Grateful Dead sound engineer Better Cantor Jackson lost over 1000 original board tapes when her storage locker was liquidated in a sale. Some of the tapes inside crates were purchased by a teacher who tried to sell them for $1 million despite being offered $100,000 by the band.
VBADQ TIL Gaetan Dugas, supposed "Patient Zero" of the US AIDS epidemic, wasn't that, according to a 2016 genetic study. The "0" was originally letter "O" for "Out of California" in a 1984 study, and because he was more helpful in naming partners, there was likely also "ascertainment bias" in blaming him.
4kXB6 TIL the largest maritime evacuation in history occurred on 9/11/01. Over 150 vessels responded to the Coast Guard’s call for help and evacuated over 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan in just 9 hours.