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TIL that DMX started a reality show about his “road to recovery” after getting out of jail… it was cancelled when he got arrested again three weeks later

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oBjD8 TIL: Biologists have observed a lizard lay eggs and give birth to live young in the same pregnancy for the first time.
9YDED TIL that the best spot in New York City to watch women's skirts being whipped around was the windy area around the Flatiron Building. In fact, policemen would occasionally have to shoo away these perpetual watches, and the expression '23 Skidoo' was said to have been born on this windswept corner.
GYE01 TIL the marriage of Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (It's A Wonderful Life) to director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause) ended in 1950 when he walked in on her in bed with his 13-year-old son -- Her stepson. She secretly married the boy ten years later.
dDkV9 TIL in 2016 a doctor performed surgery on the wrong baby. The mother thought her newborn was going for a routine checkup, but instead found out that a frenulectomy had been performed on her healthy baby. A procedure where the flap of skin under the tongue is clipped to give it more range of motion.
oRy4o TIL that the word "dude" was first used in the late 1800s as a term of mockery for young men who were overly concerned with keeping up with the latest fashions