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TIL that the US has an official plan to deal with a zombie apocalypse known as CONPLANN 8888-11.

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E1ow7 TIL about Soong Mei-Ling, the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen and the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. Her life traversed three centuries, and she lived through pretty much all the forms of government that China has tried - emperor, republic, communism, dictatorship.
o8mW TIL that Mel Blanc voiced all of the characters of Looney Tunes except for one–Elmer Fudd–though he eventually voiced that character, too
xVYN1 TIL that male fertility is highly correlated with the length between the scrotum and anus aka the taint. And the average size is 2 inches.
yEgJ TIL that Henry Beecher, anesthesiologist in Boston, published a 1966 article that drew attention to 22 examples of unethical clinical research that had risked patients’ lives, which along with subsequent Congressional investigation led to current guidelines on informed consent and human research.
oJY TIL that in the original play and novel fairies in Neverland are extremely short lived and that, by the time of the epilogue set a year later, when Wendy asks Peter Pan about Tinker Bell he had completely forgotten she ever even existed.