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TIL, all toads are frogs (toad is just a type of frog)

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wLV06 TIL: Viagra was discovered by accident. The drug (Sildenafil) was on trial as a blood pressure lowering medication but patients started reporting these raging boners as a side effect. However, they didn’t wanna return the samples and wanted to keep taking them you know, for science.
gM1lW TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers
xeY5 TIL Terry Gilliam was J.K. Rowling first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
VXgG TIL That at 14yrs old Snooker Player Stephen Hendry bought his snooker cue for £40, using this cue he won 7 world championships over 20 years until it was broken in the hold of a plane in 2003 after anti-terrorism legislation banned cues from hand luggage
W0K4 TIL that a Japanese professional baseball team has been “cursed” ever since a Colonel Sanders statue was thrown into a river.