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TIL that after South Park aired their episode about Tourette’s, the Tourette Syndrome Association, presuming it would be offensive and insensitive, actually remarked that it was well researched and actually served as a clever was to provide accurate facts.

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9DNr TIL Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin wants to build a bridge across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. This would make possible an almost 13,000 mile road trip from New York to London.
9rPG TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon
R5jpw TIL about Ovicula, a plant discovered in 2024 by Big Bend National Park botanist Debra Manley. Named "wooly devil" because of its hairy leaves and ray florets resembling devil horns, it is the first new plant species discovered in a U.S. National Park since 1976.
b6O9 TIL that the storytale Little Red Riding Hood was a story made as awarness against rapists.
nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.