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TIL The Simpsons Movie Is Banned In Burma Necause The Characters Are “Too Yellow”

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R7eAl TIL before she had her show “Talk Sex” Sue Johanson opened one of the first birth control clinics in Canada. She did weekly sex education segments from 1984-2008 and her show has aired in 25 different countries and five different languages.
yNbJ TIL that there are two related phenomenon of déjà vu with names: jamais vu and presque vu. Jamais vu is, for instance, when a word is repeated so much that it doesn’t seem like a word anymore, and presque vu is when a word is on the tip of your tongue but you can’t think of it.
dYlZ TIL Johnny Carson declared that Chevy Chase ‘couldn’t ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner’ after being told that Chase could replace him as host of the Tonight Show
9xrG TIL During WWI, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks
yVO7w TIL that bears who develop a taste for human food are put in a sanctuary and given a job testing camping coolers. A cooler has to last 60 minutes to be certified Bear Resistant.